Meanings
plural funeralgoers · alternative funeral-goer
- One who attends a funeral.
To the accompaniment of a plain, sparsely unforgiving string arrangement, a lonely old lady dies her lonely death, her only funeralgoer the equally lonely priest who buries her.
2008, Graeme Thomson, I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song, →ISBN, page 74
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