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face covering

face covering noun: anything used by a person to cover their face, the nose and mouth in particular, such as a face mask or scarf.

face covering: anything used by a person to cover their face, the nose and mouth in particular, such as a face...
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Noun

face covering (plural face coverings)

  1. Anything used by a person to cover their face, the nose and mouth in particular, such as a face mask or scarf.
    • And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...].2020 June 3, Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable policies cripple our beleaguered railway”, in Rail, page 51

face covering meaning in Tamil

face covering in Tamil

முகத்திரை

Forms of face covering

pluralface coverings

Questions about face covering

What does face covering mean?
Face covering means anything used by a person to cover their face, the nose and mouth in particular, such as a face mask or scarf.
What is face covering in Tamil?
Face covering in Tamil is முகத்திரை. See Face covering meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is face covering?
Face covering is a noun.
What is the plural of face covering?
The plural of face covering is face coverings.

Words near face covering in the dictionary

  1. face claim
  2. face claims
  3. face cloth
  4. face cloths
  5. face control
  6. face covering
  7. face coverings
  8. face cream
  9. face creams
  10. face diaper
  11. face diapers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: face covering (page history and authors); face covering (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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