Obs. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To hang with ‘tapets’ or tapestry; to adorn with tapestry. Also fig.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 260. Hys hallys I wol do peynte with pure golde And tapite hem ful many folde.
c. 1407. Lydg., Reson & Sens., 2766. The launde rounde aboute … Tapited al the large pleyn Or herbys and of fressh[e] flours. Ibid. (1412–20), Chron. Troy, I. 1659. [Medea] koude … in wynter with flowris fresche of hewe, Araye þe erþe and tapite hym in grene.
