whiskering

English

Etymology

From whisker +‎ -ing.

Noun

whiskering (uncountable)

1. (fashion) The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.
   • 2007 October 25, Armand Limnander, “Tangled in Ivy, With a Twist”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Jeans come in various states of distress, but the best are deep indigo without washing, whiskering or ravaging of any kind ($165).

2. (printing) A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
3. (mathematics, category theory) The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.