coat of paint

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   a layer of paint covering something else

   Broaderpaintcoating

   Narrowerflat coat

Questions about coat of paint

What does coat of paint mean?

coat of paint means "a layer of paint covering something else".

Is coat of paint a common word?

coat of paint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.