ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Whiskering

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Whiskering is a noun meaning (fashion) The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.

Meaning

(fashion) The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.

More Meanings

  1. (mathematics, category theory) The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.
  2. (printing) A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.

Example Sentences

Jeans come in various states of distress, but the best are deep indigo without washing, whiskering or ravaging of any kind ($165).

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bewhisker, vibrissa, wrinkling, wrinkle, winkle-hawk, whisking.

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