cloth vs swaddling clothes

cloth

noun
  • A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose. 

  • A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status. 

  • Substance or essence; the whole of something complex. 

  • A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. 

  • Priesthood, clergy. 

  • Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards. 

  • Appearance; seeming. 

swaddling clothes

noun
  • A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs. 

  • An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception. 

How often have the words cloth and swaddling clothes occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )