tapa

noun

A material much used for mats, hangings, and loin-girdles by the natives of the Pacific islands, consisting of the bark of the paper-mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera.

noun

A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; — sometimes called also kapa.

noun

A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

noun

Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

noun

the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus

noun

a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark