whiskering
nounEtymology From whisker + -ing.
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Fashion, Lifestyle The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.
- Jeans come in various states of distress, but the best are deep indigo without washing, whiskering or ravaging of any kind ($165).2007 October 25, Armand Limnander, “Tangled in Ivy, With a Twist”, in New York Times:
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Media, Printing, Publishing A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
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Category theory, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.