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whiskering en · NOUN

Etymology

From whisker + -ing.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Whiskers generally.
   • In front of each ear was something that appeared to be incipient whiskerings. 1927, Joseph Storer Clouston, The Lunatic in Love, page 161:
2. (countable, uncountable) 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:
3. (countable, uncountable) A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
4. (countable, uncountable) The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.

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