coconut matting

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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)

Two days later mother was well enough to go out, and that evening the coconut matting came home.

From The Phoenix and the Carpet by Nesbit, E. (Edith)