不ふ帰き

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

never returning; dying

A literary expression for death, almost exclusively used in the fixed phrase 不帰の客となる (to die, to become one who never returns). Not used in everyday speech.

See also: 不帰の客となる

• 彼かれは不ふ帰きの客きゃくとなった。

  He passed away (lit. became a guest who never returns).

• 「不ふ帰きの客きゃく」は、死しを婉えん曲きょくに表あらわす文ぶん学がく的てきな言いい回まわしだ。

  "不帰の客" is a literary euphemism for death.