How to use chrisom in a sentence
When children died within the month they were called chrisoms.
Witch Stories | E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) LintonIn registers and bills of mortality we find infants alluded to under the term Chrisoms.
Folk-lore of Shakespeare | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
British Dictionary definitions for chrisom
chrisom
/ (ˈkrɪzəm) /
noun
Christianity a white robe put on an infant at baptism and formerly used as a burial shroud if the infant died soon afterwards
archaic an infant wearing such a robe
a variant spelling of chrism
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