This is a classic tapa from the Basque region of Spain, and is also very popular in nearby. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The walls are decorated with a native cloth, called tapa, which serves the purpose of tapestry. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference
Although the entire cut is referred to as the tapa, this term is also used for the top of the cut, source of rump roast. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef] Reference
This is quite normal to drink something with a "tapa" of olives. From Wordnik.com. [Olives Are the New Chip] Reference
"tapa" serving that will compliment the occasional glass of wine. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Slurp Gallery] Reference
"tapa," the native bark-cloth, but made awkward and ugly by dilapidated shirts and pants. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
He'd pursue the wild tapa till he crawled onto the airplane. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
"They keep their tapa in them ... sleep in them if it rains.". From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
"Like a dog combing the beach or a woman seeking a lost tapa.". From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
It was then that I made a kind of a contract with these tapa-boys. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
But the tapa-boys, the lizards, you can do honest business with them. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
Sest "see Itaalia", minu Itaalia, ei tapa inimesi, isegi mitte Berlusconit. From Wordnik.com. [tatsutahime Diary Entry] Reference
It consists of tapa cloth cut in a deep fringe depending from waist to knee. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
Se disfraza se tapa la boca con lápiz labial con tacos altos oculta sus pies. From Wordnik.com. [veruscio Diary Entry] Reference
In order to create the competition tapa, the kitchen has trials all year round. From Wordnik.com. [Segovia Aims for the Small-Dish Big-League] Reference
Taking one of the sticks and a length of tapa, she smeared out the word MALAMA. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
They think the tapa-boys are some kind of demon and they're terribly afraid of them. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
If some pagan Batak or Sinhalese can do it then why shouldn't a tapa-boy do it too, eh?. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
Reverently, he moved the three bones onto a low tapa-covered table perched in the prow. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
The huge woman gasped, took away her right elbow and allowed her head to fall onto the tapa. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Females wore the pau, a short petticoat made of tapa, which reached from the waist to the knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
"May the union be fruitful," old Teura chanted as her niece and nephew lay inside the tapa tent. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Only there aren't any pearls left now in Devil Bay, and on other islands there aren't any tapa-boys. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
Captain van Toch's tapa-boys still live there, the original newts in the Pacific, and still half wild. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
Next day I consigned her body to the deep wrapped in her robe of white tapa cloth which formed her shroud. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
His dress, composed of tapa cloth, shells, and feathers, was more elaborate than any I had seen in the islands. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
The women were attired in petticoats of white tapa cloth, which hung down in strips from a girdle round their waists. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
She was dressed in a robe of white tapa cloth with strings of bright shells and gold ornaments upon her neck and arms. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
The king was then blessed, and the entire company, including even the five slaves, surrounded the tapa house and chanted. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
I went after them, after those sharks, and I threw stones at them, then they started throwing stones too, these tapa-boys. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
"To transport these tapa-boys to other islands where there are other pearl-fishing grounds," the captain finally exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
It wasn't the strange surroundings, nor the hard floor beneath the mat of woven tapa cloth that made Poplar's sleep uneasy. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...]
From various grass houses along the lagoon, men appeared, drowsily wrapping themselves in tapa and swallowing the last bits of coconut. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Thirteen pieces of tapa, some of them surprisingly fine, one I think unique; thirty fans of every shape and colour; a kava cup, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
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