stonewash
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of stonewash
Example Sentences
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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 ● Jul. 28, 2022
In September, the very last one — a Final Edition Beetle in stonewash blue — rolled off the assembly line at a Volkswagen plant in Puebla, about 65 miles southeast of Mexico City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
The book begins outdoors, in the back yard, where, a few pages in, a girl in stonewash denim cradles a rabbit, and a German shepherd gets sprayed in the face by a hose.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
Dating her childhood friend and career contemporary, Justin Timberlake, in a sumptuous duophony of frosted highlights and double stonewash denim, Spears was the good girl in a trashy world.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2018
A conscious woman, in stonewash with her dreads pulled back, is giving him the side-eye and laughing.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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