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Tapa

noun
1.
The thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.  Synonyms: tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark.
2.
A paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark.  Synonym: tappa.





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"Tapa" Quotes from Famous Books



... his character to draw it out of the water, since that is the duty of the female.[51] In the Marquesas Islands, the use of canoes in all parts of the islands is rigorously prohibited to women, for whom it is death even to be seen entering one when hauled on shore; while Tapa-making, which belongs exclusively to women, is taboo to men.[30] Among the Betchuanas of South Africa the men will not let women touch the cattle.[52] The Baganda think that if a woman steps over ...
— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
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Words linked to "Tapa" :   cloth, bark, fabric, material, tapa bark, tappa, tappa bark, textile


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