Prefade

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An audio fade prepared before broadcast.
Verb
  1. 1
    To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance. transitive
  2. 2
    To give (clothing, etc.) a faded appearance at the time of manufacture. transitive

    "These jeans had very fussy suggestions for upkeep and seemed to prefer that I never wash them again, lest I fade their artistically prefaded denim to a more amateurish color level."

Example

More examples

"These jeans had very fussy suggestions for upkeep and seemed to prefer that I never wash them again, lest I fade their artistically prefaded denim to a more amateurish color level."

Etymology

From pre- + fade.

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