Definition of "chrisom" []

• A white cloth or robe worn by an infant at baptism. (noun)
• Archaic An infant wearing a baptismal robe; a baby. (noun)

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• "If it dies within a month after these ceremonies, it was called a chrisom child."
• "A linen cloth anointed with this oil, called a chrisom cloth, is laid upon the baby's face."
• "Incredible at a style, more explicit instrumentalities and intellectual charge, as an odoriferous chrisom, she anoints by the singular attars to the wisdom and the creative beauty."