DCHP-2
tea revel Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a social gathering held by Indians, so called because in the early days the Hudson's Bay Company contributed tea, bannock, etc., the dance itself being a kind of single-file stomp done to the beat of skin drums.
See also: tea-dance ((n.))
- 1895 Often above the roaring of the rain we heard the beating of the tom-tom through the night, while the Indians gambled or held a tea revel.
- 1895 Often above the roaring of the rain we heard the beating of the tom-tom through the night, while the Indians gambled or held a tea revel.