kapan.
another form of tapa n.
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kapa1909
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
1913 R. Brooke Let. 28 Oct. (1968) 521 Their women held up pieces of ‘kapa’—which is bark beaten into a stiff cloth, and covered with a brown pattern.
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