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out-dooring, n. W. Afr.|aʊtˈdɔərɪŋ|
[f. out-door a. (adv.) or outdoors adv. (n.) + -ing1, tr. Ga kpodziemo going out.]
A traditional ceremony in which a baby is brought outside for the first time to be named.
[1937M. J. Field Relig. & Medicine Ga People 171 On the eighth day, very early in the morning..two women of the father's family are sent to bring the child from the mother's home..to its father's house. The friends and relations assemble in the yard outside the house for the kpodziemo or ‘going out’ ceremony.] 1962B. Kaye Bringing up Children in Ghana iv. 58 In the Northern Territories, the child is carried on to a flat roof of the compound to celebrate its out-dooring in some tribes. Ibid. 59 In Central Accra..the naming or out-dooring ceremony, called kpodziemo, is performed eight days after birth. 1975J. Wyllie Butterfly Flood (1977) xxiv. 112 The child's maternal grandmother had taken him from his mother's hut..eight days after his birth... The ceremonies continued from the ‘outdooring’ to the ‘namegiving’ by the father.
Also out-ˈdoor v. trans., to bring (a baby) out into the open for the first time.
1962B. Kaye Bringing up Children in Ghana iv. 57 After seven days have elapsed..it is considered that the child is human, and it is ‘out-doored’, or brought into the open for the first time. |