baptême

Cdn. French, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the practice of " baptizing."

Quotations

1784

[We reached] a stony point which our men called Pointe au Baptême, on account of my paying my baptême there.

1793

The intention of this Bâtême being only to claim a glass[,] I complied with the custom. . . .