tapet

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noun

A decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.

OriginOld English teped ← Proto-West Germanic *tapped ← Latin tapētum →
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Meanings

nountapet (plural tapets)

plural tapets

  1. obsoleteA 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

Origin

  1. Latintapētum
  2. Proto-West Germanic*tapped
  3. Old Englishteped
  4. Englishtapet

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

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APA

tapet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tapet

MLA

“tapet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tapet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tapet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tapet.

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