tailor's chalk

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   chalk used by tailors to make temporary marks on cloth

   Broaderchalk

Questions about tailor's chalk

What does tailor's chalk mean?

tailor's chalk means "chalk used by tailors to make temporary marks on cloth".

Is tailor's chalk a common word?

tailor's chalk 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.