Brewer's: Death-meal

(A). A funeral banquet.

“Death-meals, as they were termed, were spread in honour of the deceased.” —Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed, chap.7.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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