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tapa cloth

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ta⋅pa

2[tah-puh, tap-uh]
–noun
1. the bark of the paper mulberry.
2. Also called tapa cloth. a cloth of the Pacific islands made by pounding this or similar barks flat and thin, used for clothing and floor covering.

Origin:
1815–25; < Polynesian
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