DCHP-3

whisky feast

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a session of heavy drinking that accompanied the trading activities when Indians or others visited a post.

See: boisson

Quotations

1907
I turned around through the village and found [the Indians] had had a "whiskey feast." And, oh! What a sight! Nearly all drunk--men, women and children.