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chrisom (kriz′əm)

noun

  1. a white cloth or robe formerly put on a baby at baptism as a symbol of innocence: it was used as a shroud if the child died within a month of birth
  2. Archaic an innocent baby; infant

Etymology: ME crisom (var. of crisme, chrism), orig., cloth to keep chrism off the face

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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