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▪ I. † tapet, n. Obs. (exc. Hist.).
Forms: 1 tęped, tæpped, tæppet; 3–4 (9) tapit, 4–5 tapyt, 4–6 tapite, -yte, -ete (also 9), 5 tapytt, -e, (tepit), 5–6 tapett, -e, tappet, 6 -ett, -e, Sc. tapeit, taphet, 4– tapet.
[The OE. tęped was WGer. ad. late L. tapētum: cf. OHG. tęppid, tęppith (more usually tęppih, Ger. teppich). The later OE. tæpped, -et (cf. also MLG. teppet) may have been re-influenced by Latin. ME. tapet, tapit, etc. perh. came down from OE.; but the word may have been introduced anew in 13th c. from L., or from Prov. tapit or other Romanic form: cf. MDu. tapijt, and see tapis.]
A piece of figured cloth used as a hanging, table-cover, carpet, or the like.
a900Kentish Glosses in Wr.-Wülcker 61/1 Tapetibus pictis, ᵹemetum tepedum. c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 152/1 Sipla, an healfhruh tæppet. c1050in Thorpe Charters (1865) 429, vii ofbrædelsas and ii tæppedu.
a1300Cursor M. 11240 Was þar na pride o couerled [v.r. couerlite] Chamber curtin ne tapit [v.rr. -ite, -yte]. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 858 Tapytez tyȝt to þe woȝe, of tuly & tars, & vnder fete, on þe flet, of folȝande sute. 1382Wyclif 2 Sam. xvii. 28 Couerynge clothis, and tapetis [1388 tapitis]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lxii. (Bodl. MS.), The flesche þat lieþ in þe vtter parties of bones..is as it were a nedeful tapet and esement. 1425Rolls of Parlt. IV. 298/1 Þere was on a nyght [a man] taken by hynd a tapet in ye said Chambre. c1477Caxton Jason 97 b, Medea..brought him into the chambre where they satte vpon a moche riche tapyte. 1513Douglas æneis i. xi. 8 Amang prowde tapeitis and miche riche apparale Hir place sche tuik. a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 227 Leanyng ayenst the tappett or hangyng of the chamber. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. v. 35, 4. tapites floured, of pinsed satten. 1591Spenser Muiopotmos 276 Each doth chuse What storie she will for her tapet take. [1859Parker Turner's Dom. Archit. III. iv. 104 The bed..consisted of a selour, a testor, a counterpoint, six tapits of arras [etc.]. 1875J. H. Pollen Anc. & Mod. Furn. 31 Carpets, tapete, blankets, or other woollen coverlids for sofas or beds, were made at Corinth. ]
b. In figurative and allusive uses: cf. carpet n. 2 b and 3.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 246 Summe ladies ben menys to haue a daunsere, a trippere on tapitis, or huntere or haukere. c1430Lydg. Compl. Bl. Knt. 51 The soyle was..oversprad with tapites that Nature Had made her selfe. c1470Harding Chron. cxv. vii. (MS. Ashm. 34) lf. 90 God sette neuer Kynge to be a Ryotoure To trippe on tapites and leue in Idilnesse. 1563Mirr. Mag. Induct. i, The gladsom groves that nowe laye overthrowen The tapets torn, and every blome down blowen.
c. attrib. † tapet-hook, a hook for hanging ‘tapets’ or tapestry-hangings to the wall.
1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 121 Crochetts and tapethooks for the hangyng of the same verdours.
▪ II. † ˈtapet, v. Obs.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To hang with ‘tapets’ or tapestry; to adorn with tapestry. Also fig.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 260 Hys hallys I wol do peynte with pure golde And tapite hem ful many folde. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 2766 The launde rounde aboute..Tapited al the large pleyn Of herbys and of fressh[e] flours. 1412–20― Chron. Troy i. 1659 [Medea] koude..in wynter with flowris fresche of hewe, Araye þe erþe and tapite hym in grene.
▪ III. tapet, -ette
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