priming coat

Questions about priming coat

What does priming coat mean?

priming coat means "the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface".

What is another word for priming coat?

Close synonyms include flat coat, ground, primer, priming, primer 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 priming coat a common word?

priming 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.