matted-up

Updated: June 13, 2025

I have not tasted such fruit no! not even in Hampshire since I was a boy; and to boys, I fancy, all fruit is good. I remember eating sloes and crabs with a relish. Do you remember the matted-up currant bushes, Margaret, at the corner of the west-wall in the garden at home? Did she not?

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South