Aside from waking up, I keep hearing this word in the context of the reception after a funeral.
To me it will always be a vigil by the body of the dead person. I understood it was in older times a watching period to be sure the person was really deceased ahead of the funeral. As a girl, I think prayers were said.
I think this must be a word that’s changing. Or is it regional I wonder?
Army horses loose on London streets