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noun

Chrisom n.

A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. (Obs.)

A child which died within a month after its baptism; so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of the characters introduced into the poem, but a pardoner complains that his credit has been entirely destroyed by it and wishes the devil may take him who made that book. He further wishes that "Martin Luther, that false loon, Black Bullinger and Melanchthon" had been smothered in their chrisom-cloths and that St. ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... for lo! The creaking voice, more harsh than rusty crane, Of one who stooped behind us, cried aloud "Good lack! how sweet the gentleman does sing— So loud and sweet, 'tis like to split his throat. Why, Mike's a child to him, a two years child— Chrisom child." "Who's Mike?" my brother growled A little roughly. Quoth the fisherman— "Mike, Sir? he's just a fisher lad, no more; But he can sing, when he takes on to sing, So loud there's not a sparrow in the spire But needs must hear. Sir, ...

— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow