Definition of Tapets

1. tapet [n] - See also: tapet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tapets

tapestrying
tapestrylike
tapet
tapeta
tapeta lucida
tapetail
tapetails
tapetal
tapetal light reflex
tapeti
tapetis
tapetochoroidal
tapetoretinal
tapetoretinal degeneration
tapets (current term)
tapetum
tapetum alveoli
tapetum lucidum
tapetum nigrum
tapetum oculi
tapeworm infection
tapeworms
tapezine
tapezines
taphephobia
taphole
tapholes
taphonomic

Literary usage of Tapets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... the requisite driving gear. are worked by the rotation of a horizontal shaft, acting with tapets, like the cylinder of a barrel- organ. Beet-root Sugar. ..."

2. The Theory and Practice of the Art of Weaving by Hand and Power.: By Hand by John Wilson, John Watson (1863)
"When putting the tapets into the barrel, the workman is provided with a piece ... By using a tweeling barrel made with the stars and tapets, along with the ..."

3. The Theory and Practice of the Art of Weaving by Hand and Power: With by John Watson (1873)
"When putting the tapets into the barrel, the workman is provided with a piece ... By using a tweeling barrel made with the stars and tapets, along with the ..."

4. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, John Higgins, Richard Niccols (1815)
"N. " The tapets torne and euery tree downe blowen:" I would prefer "tree" notwithstanding. Bloom applies to spring, not autumn. EB and is uniformly repeated ..."

5. Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: Wardrobe Accounts of Edward the by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1830)
"tapets, it appears fromp 144, was another name for ... Hooks belonging to tapets. Tartarin, 117, 129, 135169. Tassels, 117, 125, 136, 152. ..."

6. Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: Wardrobe Accounts of Edward the by Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1830)
"tapets, it appears from p. 144, was another name for ... Hooks belonging to tapets. Tartarin, 117, 129, 135169. Tassels, 117, 125, 136, 152. ..."

7. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office (1903)
"8d., twelve tapets of blue colour worth 81., ... two curtains of 'carde,' two old tapets worth 20s., a canvas worth 6d., five breviaries ..."

8. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"The tapets torne, and euery blome downe blowen. ... The tapets torne, and euery tree downe blowen. The effect is considered in Vol. II. p. ..."

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