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leading-strings

leading-strings is the plural of leading-string.

Meaning of leading-string

Noun

leading-string (plural leading-strings)

  1. (historical, plural-normally) Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk.
    • 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.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 396

Questions about leading-strings

What is leading-strings the plural of?
Leading-strings is the plural of leading-string.

Words near leading-strings in the dictionary

  1. leading with one's chin
  2. leading woman
  3. leading women
  4. leading-edge
  5. leading-string
  6. leading-strings
  7. Leadingham
  8. Leadinghams
  9. leadingly
  10. leadingness
  11. leadings

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