pre-distressed

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See also: predistressed

English

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Etymology

From pre- +‎ distressed.

Adjective

pre-distressed (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, of clothes or furniture) Already distressed before purchase, artificially made to look worn and old.
    • 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:
      a new pre-distressed J.Crew cap
    • 2022, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 45:
      People today love pre-distressed denim for the same reason earlier generations loved singing cowboys. They're beautiful fictions that allow us to live in the most comfortable parts of our past without enduring the pain that truly went along with it.