The phrase "a tapis" is not correct in standard written English.
It appears to be a mix of English and French, where "tapis" means "carpet" in French. You would typically use it in a context where you are referring to a carpet or rug, but it should be in the correct language.
Example: "I just bought a beautiful tapis for my living room."
Alternatives: "a carpet" or "a rug".
He said there was not enough business in Harlem, an assessment he made after opening a wine bar there, Auberge Laurent, which he and a new partner are turning into a French restaurant, Tapis Rouge.
Under Quéhé's direction the event has grown from a handful of exhibitors in a chilly warehouse to 83 designers occupying the whole of the Tapis Rouge, a showroom that was the first department store in Paris.
Two Malaysian heavy crude oil samples, Tapis and a blend of Tapis and Masilla, were used to produce heavy crude oil-in-water emulsions.
I arrived with my carriers in a small town called Tapis and one found there the commander of the frontier force, the villain of the League of Nations, a man called Colonel Benes, who'd committed many atrocities.
In a continuing work called "Tapis de Lecture," or "Reading Rug," she puts comfortable carpets in exhibition spaces and places on them stacks of the books that have formed her personal bibliography, a version of a self-portrait that people are invited to leaf through.
Five days before the first PS2 release for Kanon, a PS2 printer called Tapis MPR-505 went on sale which enabled the user to print out game screens.
It is hard to imagine coffee any fresher than at Omar's lobby bar, a two-story atrium space with Oriental tapis on the white floor, four stools at the walnut counter and a pair of plush armchair rockers by a side table.
Among the works in the painting portion of the sale, which takes place tonight, is a 1911 canvas by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), "Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose," which Christie's head of impressionist and modern art, Thomas Seydoux, says defines Saint Laurent's approach to design.
While class wasn't mat-to-mat crowded as usual, those who unrolled their tapis, as they're known in French, immediately connected through a simple "bonjour" or a silent nod that spoke volumes.
Likewise, third-generation carpet dealers the Soufiane brothers (13 Souk des Tapis, Rahba Kedima, + 212 615 285 690, by appointment) are located deep within a particularly tangled section of the souks in the central medina.
