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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

... colors of the flowers, were the severest tax on the imagination, though I always thought myself, that they were both surpassed by incredible swarms of impossible humming-birds, with very gold and silver wings. The floor was covered with bran new matting, and the bedstead of cedar-wood was also new, though the bullock-skin on which the mattress rested, had rather an antiquated air. Moreover, I had a pair of sheets which were not of a bad color, although slightly ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... a storm, or just a shower, had burst over us, would come up and beg me to go outside. And as I did not wish to leave off my book, I would go on with it in the garden, under the chestnut-tree, in a little sentry-box of canvas and matting, in the farthest recesses of which I used to sit and feel that I was hidden from the eyes of anyone who might be coming to ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... and lent it an aerial lightness—the grace of a bird's foot. The sole, scarcely streaked by a few almost imperceptible cross lines, afforded evidence that it had never touched the bare ground, and had only come in contact with the finest matting of Nile rushes and the softest ...

— The Mummy's Foot • Theophile Gautier

... caused us some trouble in the best bedroom, but finally a strip of straw matting, two feet by one, was hauled out from its lurking-place under the washstand, whither it had crept for concealment, and reluctantly answered to ...

— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various

... are covered by a hood of matting, and a mattress inside eases the jolting by day, and serves ...

— Burma - Peeps at Many Lands • R.Talbot Kelly

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