Prefade
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An audio fade prepared before broadcast.
Verb
- 1 To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance. transitive
- 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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