swathe
verbEtymology From Middle English swathen, from Old English *swaþian, akin to Old English besweþian (“to swathe, swaddle”).
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To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers
- Their children are never swathed, or bound about with any thing when they are first born' but are put naked into the bed with their parents to lie.1664, A briefe description of the whole world wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdoms of the same, with their academies, as also their severall titles and scituations thereunto adjoyning, Archbishop Abbot, quoted in A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson, 1755
- The head was swathed in linen bands that had been white, but were now stained and discoloured with damp, but of this I shall not speak more, and beneath the chin-cloth the beard had once escaped.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
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- Josie herself looked animated and almost royal with the white bandage which swathed her forehead like a crown.1980 December 27, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 12: