tapa
nounA 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.
nounA kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; — sometimes called also
A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.
nounAny
the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
nouna paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark