coconut matting

British  

noun

1. a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut

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Example Sentences

At the top of the staircase, a drab corridor stretched out ahead, with rough coconut matting on the floor.

From Literature

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

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

I think we'll have coconut matting next time.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the work of a good many minutes and several persons to get the jam off him again, and this interesting work took people's minds off the carpet, and nothing more was said just then about its badness as a bargain and about what mother hoped for from coconut matting.

From Project Gutenberg