covering material

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   a material used by builders to cover surfaces

   Broaderbuilding material

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Questions about covering material

What does covering material mean?

covering material means "a material used by builders to cover surfaces".

Is covering material a common word?

covering material 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.