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stonewashed

British  
/ ˈstəʊnˌwɒʃt /

adjective

  1. (of new clothes or fabric, esp denim jeans) given a worn faded look by being subjected to the abrasive action of many small pieces of pumice

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 Sep. 16, 2025

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 Jun. 29, 2021

Mr. Marciano launched Guess—with its red triangle patch and stonewashed denim—in late 1981 with his brothers.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2018

Damaris appeared on the screens with chubby cheeks, stonewashed jeans and a black T-shirt that read “ ’Ello Darling.”

From Washington Post Nov. 14, 2017

If they wore the same size, she'd be forcing Eleanor into a stonewashed miniskirt about now.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

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