Tapa

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tapa
    n 1: the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus
         albidus [syn: {tapa}, {tapa bark}, {tappa}, {tappa bark}]
    2: a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa
       bark [syn: {tapa}, {tappa}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tapa \Ta"pa\, n.
   A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner
   bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also {kapa}.
   [1913 Webster] Tapadera

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