stonewash
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of stonewash
Example Sentences
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His all-American good looks couldn't be ignored: Redford was once described as "a chunk of Mount Rushmore levered into stonewashed denims".
From BBC
I nearly survived the evening unscathed, but managed to drizzle a few drops onto the ankle of my stonewash jeans before I left.
From Salon
Outside a yard where, a day earlier, relief workers had been distributing sacks of donated wheat to hungry townspeople, people hoisted aloft a fighter in stonewashed jeans and a leather grenade belt.
From New York Times
“Byron isn’t a joke,” Ms. Matthews said, wearing the stonewashed jeans and chunky ice-blue knit that she had advertised on Instagram that morning.
From New York Times
The family provided a photo of Carmelo standing on a small table, his tiny mouth agape, decked out in stylish clothes — a tie-dye shirt, stonewashed jeans and baby Air Jordan sneakers.
From Washington Post
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