Chil"dermas day` (?). [AS. cildamaesse-daeg; cild child +daeg day.] Eccl.

A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.

 

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