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Meaning of tapia | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈtapjɐ]

Definitions

  1. clay wall
    archaic, masculine
  2. wall
  3. enclosing wall
    masculine

Examples

“c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 291”

the Trojans had their town very well defended, and I'll tell you how they had their town so strong: their walls were very strong and very tall, and made not of clay, but of yellow and black and red and brown marble

“que aiades uos et uossa uos a dita plaça et herdamento do canpo con seu chantado de duas yras que y esta que se determina asy: jas da huna parte antigua del Rey et da outra parte o canpo do çimiterio da iglesia da dita villa de Ribadeu et da hua testada herdade que foy do ospital da dita villa et antigua que vay entrela et a tapia do dito moesteyro et da outra antigua da carcaua da dita villa de Ribadeu”

you and your part must have said place and property called Campo, together with its plantation of two fields that is there, and which is delimited like this: by one side by the King's old road, by the other by the field of the cemetery of said town of Ribadeo, and on one headland property that belonged to the hospital of said town and old road that goes in between it and the wall of said monastery and the other old road of the moat of said town of Ribadeo

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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