tapa Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
    tappa bark; tappa; tapa bark.
  2. noun a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark
    tappa.

WordNet

Ta"pa noun
Definitions
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.

Webster 1913