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n. a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark
n. the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
Word Usage
"A fine piece of tappa from the Solomons, of barbaric design in black and orange, made the centre of an arrangement of South Sea Island and aboriginal weapons."