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▪ I. tapis, n.
(ˈtæpɪs, ‖ tapi)
Forms: 5 tappes, 6 Sc. tapeis, 7– tapis.
[a. F. tapis, OF. tapiz (12th c.) = Sp., Pg. tapiz (pl. tapices):—pop. L. type *tappētium, for late L. tapētium (-ēcium), ad. Gr. ταπήτιον, dim. of τάπης (acc. τάπητα) cloth wrought with figures in various colours, tapestry.
Late L. tapētium might also be inferred from tapētia, pl. of cl. L. tapēte, neuter; L. had also tapēta pl., as from *tapētum, and tapētæ pl., as from *tapēta; also (immed. from Gr.) acc. sing. masc. tapēta, pl. tapētas, as from *tapēs masc. In later and med.L., Isidore has pl. tapēta; later forms cited by Du Cange are tapēcius, tapēsium (from tapētium), and tapētiæ pl. Beside the forms mentioned above, It. has tappeto, Sp. and Pg. tapete, Pr. tapit. From late L. and Rom. came also OE. tęped, tæpped, -et, and the cognate forms mentioned under tapet.]
†a. A cloth worked with artistic designs in colours, used as a curtain, table-cloth, carpet, or the like.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. cxli. 129 Beholde now this house, where are now the ryche tappes & clothis of golde. 1539Inv. R. Wardrobe (1815) 50 Item four grete pece of tapis of Turque, off the quhilkis ane is of silk. Item fiftene litle tapis of Turque. a1600in Pinkerton Anc. Scott. Poems (1786) I. 257 Thy beddis soft, and tapeis fair. 1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 134 What loom e'er furnish'd for imperial floor Tapis more rich, or grateful to the foot.
b. Phrase. on (upon) the tapis [from F. sur le tapis], on the table-cloth, under discussion or consideration. Cf. carpet n. 1 b.
1690Clarendon Diary 2 May, Lord Churchill and Lord Godolphin went away, and gave no votes in the matter which was upon the tapis. 1782Europ. Mag. I. 248 Several marriages are adjusted, and many others are on the tapis. 1809H. More Cœlebs II. xxxiv. 128, I had..been trying to bring Lucilla on the tapis. 1865York Herald 18 Mar., The question of the legitimate claimant has for a long time been upon the tapis. 1880Manch. Guardian 23 Nov., This view was held by Mr. Stansfield when his successor's bill was on the tapis.
‖c. tapis vert, a long strip of grass-covered ground; a grass walk. Cf. carpet n. 3.
1960O. Manning Great Fortune iii. 215 They were walking down the main path beside the tapis vert. 1965Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 9 Mar. (1970) 248 He wants to..preserve the tapis vert, the long green ribbon that stretches..from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial. 1976D. Wood Pract. Garden Design ii. 42 Two steps down..to the enclosed gardens on either side of the tapis vert—‘green carpet’.
▪ II. tapis, tapish, v.1 Obs. or arch.|ˈtæpɪs, -ɪʃ|
Forms: 4–7 tapis (4 tapise, -ice), 6–7 tappas, 6–8 tapish, 7 tappish, tappes, 7–9 tappis, 9 tappice.
[f. OF. (se) tapir, tapiss- (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.); ulterior origin uncertain: see -ish2.]
intr. To lie close to the ground, lie low so as to be hid; to lurk, skulk, lie hid. (The pa. pple. is commonly used in intransitive sense: cf. fallen, risen.)
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 3 With joy alle at ons þei went tille Snawdone On Iuor & Ini, þat tapised by þat side, To purueie þam a skulkyng, on þe Englis eft to ride. c1330― Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11529 Þou schal nought tapice a night to slepe. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxvi. (1612) 175 Now tappas closely, silly Heart,..The Huntsmans-selfe is blind. 1599A. Hume Hymns, Day Estivall 126 The hart, the hynd, and fallow deare, Are tapisht at their rest. 1611Markham Countr. Content. i. iv. (1668) 25 Hee will tappish oft, that is, he will ever and anon be lying down and lurking in dark holes and corners. 1613Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove Wks. (1711) 119 The spider; that pitcheth toyls, and is tapist, to prey on the smaller creatures. 1659Lady Alimony ii. vi. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 322 Sir Reuben..like a ranger may tappis where he likes. 1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia v. i, You'll find him tappes'd in some Ale-house. 1823Scott Peveril xxxiii, Your father..is only tappiced in some corner. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Tappis, to lie close to the ground. A sportsman's phrase... ‘It is so wet the birds cannot tappis’.
b. trans. (and refl.) To hide, conceal. arch.
a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) II. 127 If you yett insiste to see the disposition of man to the quicke discouered, and take of the veile wherwith [it is] tapissied. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. xi, Having tappiced herself behind the little bed.
Hence † ˈtapised (tapist, tapiced) ppl. a., hidden, concealed; † ˈtapissing vbl. n., in quot. concr. a hiding-place.
a1340Hampole Psalter xvii. 13 He sett myrknesis his tapissynge [L. latibulum]. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 35 Wee..made them as fearefully rush vp, as a tapist Buck will doe, when he finds his enemies so neere.
▪ III. tapis, tapish, v.2 Now dial.|ˈtæpɪs, -ɪʃ|
Forms: 4 tapis, 8–9 tapish, 9 tappish.
[perh. for *tabish, f. L. tābēscere to waste away, decline.]
intr. (a) To languish, pine away; (b) to be mortally sick or diseased. (Often in pa. pple. in intrans. sense.)
c1375St. Aug. 499 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 70, I..Þat sum tyme was a bitter berkere..Aȝeynes lettres goode and mete..And I tapissed [L. tabescebam] vndur such lettring. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. V j, When Miners are troubled in the Mines by Damps,..yet..are preserved by being timely helped, and escape with Life; such a one we say, is Tapish'd, more or less. 1865J. Sleigh Derbysh. Gloss. s.v., Hur tappish'd yest' morn. 1875Manch. Guard. 1 Mar. (E.D.D.), His brother said he thought he was ‘tappished’ with a decline. Ibid. 29 Mar., ‘This arm's tappished’,..‘This wood's tappished’. 1891Sheffield Gloss. Suppl. 58 Tapish, to waste or pine away... ‘He tapished and died’.
▪ IV. † tapis, v.3 Obs.
Forms: 6 tappes, 6–7 tapes, 7 tapis.
[a. F. tapisse-r (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), in OF. tapissier, f. tapis: see tapis n.]
trans. To hang, cover, or adorn with tapestry; also, to adorn with figures, as tapestry.
1528Lyndesay Dreme 325 That myrke Mansioun is tapessit with stynk. 1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 122 Chamber, richly arrayed and tappesed with Arras. 1601Holland Pliny xix. iv, The windowes beautified with green quishins, wrought and tapissed with floures of all colours. 1602Carew Cornwall 111 b, Onely there remaine the Iuie⁓tapissed wals of the keepe. |