Obs. Forms: 6 tappes, 6–7 tapes, 7 tapis. [a. F. tapisse-r (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), in OF. tapissier, f. tapis: see TAPIS sb.] trans. To hang, cover, or adorn with tapestry; also, to adorn with figures, as tapestry.
1528. Lyndesay, Dreme, 325. That myrke Mansioun is tapessit with stynk.
1562. Leigh, Armorie (1597), 122. Chamber, richly arrayed and tappesed with Arras.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XIX. iv. The windowes beautified with green quishins, wrought and tapissed with floures of all colours.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 111 b. Onely there remaine the Iuie-tapissed wals of the keepe.
