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face coverings

face coverings is the plural of face covering.

Meaning of face covering

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

Questions about face coverings

What is face coverings the plural of?
Face coverings is the plural of face covering.

Words near face coverings in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: face coverings (page history and authors); face covering (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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