stonewashed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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For many filmgoers though, he was simply the best-looking cinema star in the world - once described as "a chunk of Mount Rushmore levered into stonewashed denims".
From BBC • Dec. 31, 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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