talcum powder

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   a toilet powder made of purified talc and usually scented; absorbs excess moisture

   Synonymstalcum

   Broadertoilet powder

Questions about talcum powder

What does talcum powder mean?

talcum powder means "a toilet powder made of purified talc and usually scented; absorbs excess moisture".

What is another word for talcum powder?

Close synonyms include talcum. 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 talcum powder a common word?

talcum powder 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.