Potlatch is valid Scrabble Word

Is potlatch a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for POTLATCH in dictionary:

VERB:

to exchange gifts
hold a potlatch.

NOUN:

(Native American) a social event or celebration which features reciprocal gift-giving, also POTLACH, POTLACHE
(among North American Indian peoples of the north-west coast) an opulent ceremonial feast at which possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige.
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)
competitive ceremonial activity among certain Native American tribes

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to hold a ceremonial feast for
competitive ceremonial activity among certain North American Indians

Words related to POTLATCH

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Words that contain POTLATCH

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How to use POTLATCH in a sentence

Why is it bad when an Indian gives away all his goods for others? That is what a great potlatch is.
Many pieces of goods had been provided for the potlatch, and these were given away, given and received with dignified politeness.
And when he was very old, being greatest of chiefs and richest of men, he gave a potlatch.
And then there were men from far-distant tribes, great travellers and seekers who had heard of the potlatch of Ligoun.
It was a feast great almost as the potlatch of Ligoun.
Yet honor was mine at the potlatch of Niblack, on the Skoot, and the memory of it, and the memory of Ligoun, be dear to me.
The entire post of Katleean was getting ready for the Potlatch, an Indian festival scheduled for the near future.
Whenever a Potlatch blanket is given away the name of a dead man is called and he receives it in the spirit world.
Katleean was beginning to celebrate the Potlatch in the singular way of the male, who, since time immemorial has made a holiday an occasion for a carousal.
The never-ceasing beat of the Potlatch drums made a throbbing, low accompaniment to their guttural tones and laughter.

CHAPTER VII THE POTLATCH DANCE Evening found the Boreland family, attended by Kayak Bill, taking the beach trail to the Village.
All about the sides of the great room squatted natives in their Potlatch finery.
Another moment and the chief dancer of the Potlatch entered the oval.
Her dreamy, contemplative mood changed to one closely akin to panic, as out of the shadows tall and dominant in his Potlatch robes, the White Chief stalked toward her.
As he entered the cabin the Swede, still nursing the broken head that kept him from participating in the Potlatch festivities, groaned dismally in greeting.
They had come back to their room at the post the night of the Potlatch dance.
Since the night of the Potlatch dance she had talked with him only in the presence of a third person.

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