Definitions
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- noun fashion The
fading ofcreases inblue jeans , especially around thecrotch ; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's called "whiskering", but don't tell the sales girl that; she'll try to set you up and not with a girl.
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In addition, the dungarees go through whiskering, color coatings and oven baking that leaves them soft and rumpled, like they've just been air-dried on a clothesline.
Guy Blue Heaven Ray A. Smith 2011
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The site, owned by Emeryville, Calif.-based Archetype Solutions Inc., had plenty of options for styles, back pockets and even finishing treatment sanding, whiskering, distressing, for example.
Ordering Jeans Straight, With a Touch of Stretch Alina Dizik 2010
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I'm wearing my New York & Company West Side jeans, which I am really beginning to hate the whiskering pisses me off.
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I'm wearing my New York & Company West Side jeans, which I am really beginning to hate the whiskering pisses me off.
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I'm wearing my New York & Company West Side jeans, which I am really beginning to hate the whiskering pisses me off.
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Until Barack Obama decides to cultivate some whiskering under his nose or Nancy Pelosi pulls a Frida Kahlo, it is too soon to declare the return of the political mustache.
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For the past few years, the denim industry had been leaning toward easy-to-wear boot cuts and unique and expensive finishes, from precise whiskering at the tops of the thighs to specially installed wear at the hems.
Fall Denim Do's 2006
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There have been periods in the history of man when I, too, would probably have cultivated some form of whiskering.
The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909
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It was snowing, and the cold had nipped and yellowed his meagre face between its slight grey whiskering.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
hernesheir commented on the word whiskering
So says Wiktionary: The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.
April 7, 2011
bilby commented on the word whiskering
Ruzuzu lists her location as 'the crease in the map'.
April 8, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word whiskering
Do bilbies have whiskers?
April 8, 2011
bilby commented on the word whiskering
*gets twitchy*
April 8, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word whiskering
*grabs three or four whiskers and pulls*
April 8, 2011
bilby commented on the word whiskering
Ow!
April 8, 2011