Christenings
[krisniŋz]
Examples
- During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At christenings folk will even smuggle in a reel or two, if 'tis no further on than the first or second chiel. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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