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Matting

noun

A covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp).

Mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture. Synonym: mat.

Mat

verb

(past & past part. matted; pres. part. matting)

Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass. Synonyms: entangle, snarl, tangle.

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like. Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up.

Matte

verb

Change texture so as to become matted and felt-like. Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte up.

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"Matting" Quotes from Famous Books

... back in the semi-grin of desperate agony, that dumb, ceaseless moaning makes its way despite the gallant effort to restrain it. The one uninjured arm hangs downwards, its restless fingers picking at the bloodstained matting that covers the loose boards of the floor. A sheet has been lightly laid over him. It is dabbled with the prevailing hue, and sinks in an ominous hollow below the breast. And beyond the bottom of it splashed leggings ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... what's coming to you!" With this I slapped them with my pillow twice or thrice, but the objects being so small, the effect was out of proportion to the force with which the blows were administered. I adopted a different plan. In the manner of beating floor-mats with rolled matting at house-cleaning, I sat up in bed and began beating them with the pillow. Many of them flew up by the force of the pillow; some desperately clung on or shot against my nose or head. I could not very well hit those on my head with the pillow; I grabbed ...

— Botchan (Master Darling) • Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri

... affording safe anchorage for the greater part of the year. It was opened to foreign trade towards the latter end of the 18th century. The exports consist of coffee, pepper, cardamoms and coco-nuts. There are factories for coir-matting. The raja has a palace, and Protestant missionaries ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... place to hide them. The place he chose was between the leaves of a book. He would push a pin far in out of sight, and then go after another. A match he always tried to put in a crack, under the baseboard, between the breadths of matting, or under my rockers. He first placed it, and then tried to hammer it in out of sight. He could seldom get it in far enough to suit him, and this worried him. Then he would take it out and try ...

— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... may be kept all winter by laying them in a heap in the cellar, with the concave side upwards to hold in the liquor. Sprinkle them every day with strong salt and water, and then with Indian meal. Cover them with matting or ...

— Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats • Miss Leslie

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