to stonewash

Examples

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• I have an Etsy.com shop at stonewashed2010.etsy.com, and I really need to learn this stuff because I'm not getting any sales.

  Blog text (13)

• You know, Liz said I should get my face stonewashed like her, but that bruising...

  For Your Consideration (2006)

• "It's too soon!" he cries, loud enough that the general's daughter, hanging her stonewashed jeans on the back rail of her father's quarters several houses.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Today he wore a gray-blue sport coat over a royal-blue dress shirt, stonewashed jeans, and cowboy boots.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Faded jeans—not stonewashed so much as gravel-scraped—in the appropriate size.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Have a short stonewashed denim skirt that you wear to school sometimes, but which, when paired with this red shirt, is somehow a bit of a lady-of-the-night look, which is exactly what you're going for, or so you think.

  Blog text (12)

• Zachary played shave-and-a-haircut on the doorbell, which was answered by a braless girl in a USS Norfolk T-shirt and stonewashed jeans.

  Fiction book (1991)

• She decided to stonewash her old denim jacket to give it a more vintage look.

• To achieve that faded appearance, many brands prefer to stonewash their jeans during production.

Synonyms

A

to acid-wash

vsto stonewash

2 4.6

Treat jeans with chemicals to make them look faded

uses stones rather than chemicals to produce a worn faded appearance

S

to stone-wash

vsto stonewash

• Specialized

1 4.6

To wash clothes with stones to make them look faded and soft

is the same meaning but written without a hyphen

Antonyms

D

to darken

63 3.3

Make or become less bright, for example a room

B

to brighten

27 2.7

To make a place or thing look more cheerful by adding color

How Distressed

to bleach

50 3.2

to stonewash

1 5.1

wash

65 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology