noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Alternative form of tapa (“cloth made from mulberry bark”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable

   "These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernable in the tappa in its finished state."

2. 2
   a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark wordnet
3. 3
   the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

tapatapatapa barktappa bark

Example

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"These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernable in the tappa in its finished state."

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