| 单词 |
swathing-band |
| 释义 |
ˈswathing-band
1. = swaddling-band. Usually pl.
c1435Torr. Portugal 2017 Vp they toke the child ying,..And vndid the swathing band. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 192 They scorned to serve a babe in his swathing bands. a1668R. Lassels Voy. Italy (1698) II. 211 An angel of silver..presenting to our Lady a child of gold in swathing-bands. 1702N. Tate Hymn, ‘While shepherds’ iv, The heavenly Babe..All meanly wrapt in swathing bands. 1875Encycl. Brit. III. 189/1 Among neither people, however, did art altogether escape from the swathing-bands of its nursery.
†2. A bandage, a band of stuff for winding round a body. Also transf. Obs.
1615Crooke Body of Man 143 Fascia renum, that is, the Kidneyes swathing band. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v. i. 328 Hee takes off the swathing-band from the most dangerous wound. 1683P. Lorrain Muret's Rites Funeral 3 Afterwards they anointed it [sc. the corpse] outwardly all over with a certain gum; wrapt it in swathing-bands of very fine linnen. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 268 As so many girdles or swathing-bands about the body of the earth. |
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