noun a white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
2. chrisom ·noun a child which died within a month after its baptism;
so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
noun a white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
2. chrisom ·noun a child which died within a month after its baptism;
so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012