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- Dictionarychrisom/ˈkrɪz(ə)m/
noun
- 1. a white robe put on a child at baptism, and used as its shroud if it died within the month. historical
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Anciently, a chrisom, or "chrisom-cloth," was the face-cloth, or piece of linen laid over a child's head during baptism or christening. Originally, the purpose of the chrisom-cloth was to keep the chrism, a consecrated oil, from accidentally rubbing off. With time, the word's meaning changed, to that of a white mantle thrown over the whole infant at the time of baptism. The term has come to refer ... Wikipedia