coconut matting
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As the athletes ran in tiny circles on a ninety-yard track made of coconut matting, spectators listened to an Italian tenor who had been booked by the promoters to make the time pass “more pleasantly.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2015
Ten thousand miles over the sea on a strip of coconut matting 22 yards long was being played a test* match between England and Australia.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the top of the staircase, a drab corridor stretched out ahead, with rough coconut matting on the floor.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Anthea and Jane whispered together in the passage downstairs, where the coconut matting was - with the hole in it that you always caught your foot in if you were not careful.
From Five Children and It by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
The door let into a wide passage covered with coconut matting.
From Esther Waters by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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