1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. lii. f. 302^v The Chamber was so well hanged with Tapistrie, and furnished, and so trimly matted.

1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iv. sig. F Like a Horsekeeper in a Ladies matted Chamber at midnight.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 81 in Sylva Be careful now to keep the Doors and Windows of your Conservatories well matted, and guarded from the piercing Air.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 193 The Walls of the Green House are Matted.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 429. ¶12 He has chosen an Apartment with a matted Anti-chamber.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House i. 2 The various solicitors..ranged in a line, in a long matted well.

1891 A. M. Bacon Japanese Girls & Women x. 266 Crowds of clerks sitting upon the matted floors.

1987 Daily Tel. 7 Apr. 5/1 The bedrooms have traditional matted floors, with tables designed for eating at while sitting on the floor level.

1570 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) II. 265 ij matted chares, vj d.

c1625 T. Heywood tr. Ovid De Arte Amandi 5 At the play time unto the Theater, Where thou shalt finde them thicke in a great nomber The matted seates, and the degrees to comber.

1646 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 84 1 Old Truncke 2 stooles 1 Matted chaire.

1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes Prol. sig. a3 Who..print our Matted Seats with dirty Feet.

1720 London Gaz. No. 5891/4 Tho. Smith, Citizen and Turner, of that Branch called a matted Chair-maker, is in want of Journeymen..either for Matting, Turning, Joining or Carving, in the said matted Chair business... Tho. Smith maketh..all sorts of matted Work, and fine mimick Wallnut-Tree.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xxiii. 404 The ordinary Matted Chairs.

1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal xv We find..matted bottom chairs, in their principal rooms.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §2145 A child's chair..having..a matted seat.

1965 J. A. Michener Source (1967) 92 His wife was bringing rushes from the wadi and reeds to be woven into a tightly matted roof.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 150 We pitched our matted Tents.

1841 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. II. iii. 47 The little matted tents of the market-women.

1867 Appletons' Jrnl. 26 Feb. 258/2 A village of matted tents rising around the wigwam of the chief.

1944 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiv. 122 Five thousand people live in rush-matted tents, in the encampment of Divisional Headquarters.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Dd4 ^v The vpper brimme was grene with grasse and matted hearbes.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 696 The places in their Winter..covered with water, doe grow thicke and matted with abundance of little trees, herbes and plants.

1661 K. W. Confused Characters 30 His matted noddle is so stuft with the windy conceit of his mastership, that there's not room for anything but adoration.

1661 Edinb. Test. LXX. f. 112^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Fyve rollis of matted tobacco.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 343 [He] Teizes his Wooll, by opening all the hard and almost matted knots he finds in it.

1747 W. Collins Odes 34 Her matted Tresses madly spread.

1749 T. Warton Triumph of Isis 57 Cam meandering thro' the matted reeds.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 349 Those matted woods, where birds forget to sing.

1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 168 Loosen the earth and matted roots.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 1 Half savage as the man showed, with no covering on his matted head.

1899 T. Roosevelt Rough Riders iv. 124 The work of an orderly on foot, under the blazing sun, through the hot and matted jungle, was very severe.

1931 V. Woolf Waves 12 My hair will be matted and I shall sleep under hedges.

1964 T. Roethke Far Field 30 The briary hedge, the tangle of matted underbrush.

1988 Independent 11 May 17 Sweaters..can be difficult to buy secondhand, as they are often matted.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 270 Then Pincks,..specially the Matted Pinck, & Cloue Gilly-flower.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Matted, an Epithete given to Plants when they grow, as if they were platted together, as Matted Pink, Matweed, &c.

1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Caryophyllus The matted pink is the smallest, both for leaf and flower, of the other Pinks that are nourished in gardens.

1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) IV. 143 Matted mouse-skin byssus.

1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 79 By thee the plowshare rends the matted plain.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 10 His eye Stedfast upon the matted turf he kept.

1877 W. C. Bryant Song of Sower iv The matted sward.

1881 M. Arnold Ode Westm. Abbey ii That new Minster in the matted fen.

1993 R. Warren Stained Glass 53 On soft, matted soil Blueberry bushes crawl.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. xvi. 198 The central part of this stratum..is a matted mass of scales, ichthyodorulites, jaws, teeth, and coprolites of fishes.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 121 The ascitic fluid is sometimes loculated between the matted intestines.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 10 The matted valves may remain rigidly fixed.

1983 Radiology 149 253 The features of granulomatous enterocolitis include abscesses in various locations and bowel loops that are matted and inflamed.

1999 Jrnl. Computer Assisted Tomography 23 244 There were three patterns of disease, comprising discrete nodes, matted nodes, and confluent masses.