DCHP-3

potlatch-giver

Pacific Coast
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person giving a potlatch (def. 2a).

See: potlatch ((n.))(def. 2a),potlatcher(def. 1)

Quotations

1955
. . . there was more . . . wanton destruction of both food and property for no other purpose than to enhance the prestige of the potlatch-giver.