prefade
nounEtymology From pre- + fade.
1
Broadcasting, Media An audio fade prepared before broadcast.
prefade
verbEtymology From pre- + fade.
1
Broadcasting, Media To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.
2
Business, Manufacturing To give (clothing, etc.) a faded appearance at the time of manufacture.
- These jeans had very fussy suggestions for upkeep and seemed to prefer that I never wash them again, lest I fade their artistically prefaded denim to a more amateurish color level.2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, in New York Times: