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tappa

WordNet
  1. (n) tappa
    a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark
  2. (n) tappa
    the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) tappa
    See tapa.
Usage in the news

From reggae toastmaster Tappa Zukie to Chief Keef. spin.com

Tappa Zukie Peace In The Ghetto (1978) Kanye has been dipping his toes into the wubby waters of dubstep, lately. spin.com

Usage in literature

These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernible in the tappa in its finished state. "Typee" by Herman Melville

Everybody, too, ride about in coaches, bigger than hers; and wear fine tappa every day. "Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas" by Herman Melville

He was courteous, however, directing a tappa cloth to be spread for me. "Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete" by Gilbert Parker

Their only clothing consisted of the maro, a strip of tappa, or native cloth, tied round the loins. "The Island Home" by Richard Archer

We dismounted in front of a little grass hut where we heard the sound of a tappa-pounder, and went to the door. "Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880" by Various

Figure 2 shows a forge made by William E. Tappae. "St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1886, No. 7." by Various

She lay down at the bottom with a tappa cloth covering her from the sun. "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life" by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey