outdooring
Pluraloutdoorings
- 1A ceremony in which a newborn is taken outside the house for the first time and formally given a name.
Like a naming day or christening, marking a child's first public appearance.
Relatives gathered at dawn for the outdooring of the newborn twins.
She wore traditional cloth to her son's outdooring and received many gifts from the elders.
Note
A word of Ghanaian English, built plainly from outdoor + -ing: the name describes the moment itself, the infant's first passage out of the house and into the gathered community. It behaves as an ordinary countable noun, so a family may attend several outdoorings in a year, and it pairs naturally with a possessive or an of-phrase: her son's outdooring, the outdooring of the twins.
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Origin
Formed from "outdoor" combined with the suffix "-ing".