Tapa

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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