tapis
/ˈtapiː
/noun (plural same) archaic
A tapestry or richly decorated cloth, used as a hanging or a covering.Indio women traditionally wore wide-necked, wide-sleeved short blouses and ankle-length tube skirts; in public, they draped a shawl over their shoulders and wrapped a tapis, a small piece of cloth, over the skirt....
- He said the tapis, indicative of the region's distinctive textiles and only found in Lampung, was made from basic handwoven fabric, using handspun yarn and rich natural dyes of deep blue, warm yellow and rusty brown from the mahogany bark.
Origin
French, from Old French tapiz, via late Latin from Greek tapētion, diminutive of tapēs 'tapestry'.
Rhymes
- the dirty end of the stick
- the dismals
- the dismal science
- the Dispersion
- the distaff side
- the Divine
- the Divinity
- the dizzy heights
- the dog's bollocks
- the dogs of war
- the Dolomites
- the Downs
- the dry heart
- the dust settles
- thee
- the early bird catches the worm
- the early hours
- the earth
- the earth moved (or did the earth move for you?)
- the East
- theeing
- psychorhythm
- psychoscope
- psychosensorial
- psychosensory