chrisom child

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A child that died within a month after its baptism.
    — It is on a small stone in the chancel, underneath a brass figure of a chrisom child, and runs thus "Of Rog' Lee, gentilma' here, lyeth the son Bendict Lee Crysom, who soule ih'u p'dō."

词形变化

chrisom children plural

词源

So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children.
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