finishing coat

1. 1.

   the final coating of (eg., paint, plaster, varnish, etc.)

   “we can't paint until they put on the finishing coat”

   Synonymsfinish coat

   Broadercoatingplaster

Questions about finishing coat

What does finishing coat mean?

finishing coat means "the final coating of (eg., paint, plaster, varnish, etc.)".

What is another word for finishing coat?

Close synonyms include finish coat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is finishing coat a common word?

finishing coat 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.