pilot cloth

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   a thick blue cloth used to make overcoats and coats for sailors etc

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Questions about pilot cloth

What does pilot cloth mean?

pilot cloth means "a thick blue cloth used to make overcoats and coats for sailors etc".

Is pilot cloth a common word?

pilot cloth 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.