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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A material much used for mats, hangings, and loin-girdles by the natives of the Pacific islands, consisting of the bark of the paper-mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.

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  • noun A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
  • noun Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
  • noun a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark

Etymologies

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From a Polynesian language.

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From Spanish tapa

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