1.Pohjois-Amerikan luoteisrannikon intiaanien seremoniallinen juhla, jossa isäntä antaa lahjoja osoittaakseen varakkuuttaan
1.a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment)