leading-string

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[edit] English

[edit] Noun

Singular
leading-string

Plural
leading-strings

leading-string (plural leading-strings)

  1. (historical, usually in plural) Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 396:
      her lover [...] treated me in all respects as a perfect infant. To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings.
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