"potlache" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: potlaches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} potlache (plural potlaches)
  1. Dated spelling of potlatch.
    Sense id: en-potlache-en-noun-eVneWg67 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Anyway, I lie here and imagine grandfather celebrating a heavenly potlache – (heaven is the only place he'll ever celebrate it, for it's long since been forbidden by the government here on earth) – and the great Christian gates are opening for him now, and behind him the charred remains of his pipe and his blue denims bear witness to the last potlache of all.",
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