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tapet

tapet noun: a decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.

Noun

tapet (plural tapets)

  1. (obsolete) A decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.
    • And in thoſe Tapets weren faſhioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 568

Forms of tapet

pluraltapets

Origin of tapet

From Old English teped, tæpped, from Proto-West Germanic *tapped, from Latin tapētum (later influenced by or re-borrowed from Latin). Doublet of tapetum.

Questions about tapet

What does tapet mean?
Tapet means a decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.
What part of speech is tapet?
Tapet is a noun.
What is the plural of tapet?
The plural of tapet is tapets.

Words near tapet in the dictionary

  1. tapestry beetles
  2. tapestry moth
  3. tapestry moths
  4. tapestrying
  5. tapestrylike
  6. tapet
  7. tapeta
  8. tapeta lucida
  9. tapetail
  10. tapetails
  11. tapetal

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