pre-distressed
adjEtymology From pre- + distressed.
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Colloquial, Of clothes or furniture Already distressed before purchase, artificially made to look worn and old.
- a new pre-distressed J.Crew cap2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:
- People today love pre-distressed denim for the same reason earlier generations loved singing cowboys. They're beautiful fictions that allow us to live in the most comfortable parts of our past without enduring the pain that truly went along with it.2022, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 45: