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swathe

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6 lettersPronunciation /sweɪð/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aehstwStarts with SEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. wrap in swaddling clothes

Word origin

From Middle English swathe, swath, from Old English swaþu, swæþ (“bandage”), probably akin to Old English swaþul, sweþel (“a swathe, wrap, band, bandage”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Josie herself looked animated and almost royal with the white bandage which swathed her forehead like a crown.

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