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noun

Matting n.

The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

Mats, in general, or collectively; mat work; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.

Materials for mats.

An ornamental border. See 3d Mat, 4.

Matting n. A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.

verb

Mat v. t. (past & past part. matted; pres. part. matting)

To cover or lay with mats.

To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. "And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair."

Mat v. i. To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat, as hair when wetted with a sticky substance; as, a long-haired cat whose fur is matted.

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Etymology of 'Matting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Matting" Quotes from Famous Books

... if the occult prompting which had dragged him out of his chair on the Brentwcod porch saw to it that he walked upon the strip of matting in the tile-paved corridor and so made his approach noiseless. Also, if the same silent monitor bade him stop short of the governor's office: at the door, namely, of the public anteroom, ...

— The Grafters • Francis Lynde

... think I am like a grisette, and this is not a garret. Look around, and see if I am not very nice here. What can be purer and cleaner than this matting, which still smells of the sweet groves of Ceylon. See my chairs and sofa—did you ever see such incomparable chintz? the white ground covered with roses and blue-bells! Here are my books, there my flowers, and this—you know this, do you not?" said May, ...

— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey

... in cool and pretty summer gowns; much Salvation Army; lots of Maoris; the faces and bodies of some of the old ones very tastefully frescoed. Maori Council House over the river-large, strong, carpeted from end to end with matting, and decorated with elaborate wood carvings, artistically executed. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... dark passage to the white room was dazzling. It was a small room, and it seemed to be all white: walls, floor (covered with a white India matting), furniture, and all. The strange lady sat in a great white armchair. She wore a gown of soft white cashmere, and her hair, and her cap, her hands, and her face, were all different shades of white, each softer than the other. Only her eyes were brown; and as she looked kindly ...

— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards

... very pretty, though, with the rich carpet and the crimson curtains that had come from Hickory Street, replacing the white muslin draperies and straw matting of the summer; and the books and vases, and statuettes and pictures, gathered into so small space, seemed to fill the room with ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

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