tapa
1Usually tapas . (especially in Spain) a snack or appetizer, typically served with wine or beer.
Origin of tapa
1Words Nearby tapa
Other definitions for tapa (2 of 2)
the bark of the paper mulberry.
Also called tapa cloth . a cloth of the Pacific Islands made by pounding the bark of the paper mulberry, or similar barks, flat and thin: used for clothing and floor covering.
Origin of tapa
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How to use tapa in a sentence
Firing up the stove and unpacking insulated containers, we soon have our simple tapas of Trinxat.
A Paddleboard Adventure to Climb in Spain’s Mont-Rebei Gorge | POM Administrator | July 29, 2022 | Outside OnlineHaving met me in Spain for IAP, the students begin the Spanish Incubator—my crash course on 20th-century Spanish literature, history, and culture—with a dinner of tapas followed by the annual Three Kings Parade.
Adib Khan, the principal of Ghulam Nabi Charkhi school in tapa e Nader Khan, gives his own wages to keep his school going.
In out-of-the-way parts the “sulus” are still made of “tapa” cloth, and the women sometimes wear small fibrous aprons.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines | H. Wilfrid WalkerI immediately went behind a “tapa” screen where the “Buli” slept, and began to get into dry clothes.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines | H. Wilfrid Walker
They then unwound the “tapa” from their bodies and threw it in a heap on the ground, following this by more manœuvres.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines | H. Wilfrid WalkerThen the old man unwound the “tapa” around him and threw it on the mats, as did others.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines | H. Wilfrid WalkerThen off came the “tapa” from around them, and the heap was made still larger.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines | H. Wilfrid Walker
British Dictionary definitions for tapa
/ (ˈtɑːpə) /
the inner bark of the paper mulberry
a paper-like cloth made from this in the Pacific islands
Origin of tapa
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