homegoing
n.— «He said that in the many black churches he had visited he had heard funerals referred to as “homegoings.”» —“In a Sprawling Memoir, Clinton Cites Storms and Settles Scores” by John M. Broder New York Times June 19, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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