chief

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an industrious leader of a band of Indian hunters, rewarded with coat, tall hat, trousers, and flag, as symbols of headship.

Quotations

1795

And before night/I/clothed the following Chiefs. . . .

1801

I clothed [the corpse] with a chief's cloathing, viz^t coat, shirt, Hatt & Trowsers.

1908

Her father . . . was a fur company's Chief, and, in his youth, a noted hunter. . . .