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English
Etymology
From pre- + fade.
Verb
prefade (third-person singular simple present prefades, present participle prefading, simple past and past participle prefaded)
- (broadcasting, transitive) To fade (an audio track) before it is broadcast, by listening in advance.
- (manufacturing, transitive) To give (clothing, etc.) a faded appearance at the time of manufacture.
2009 May 7, Cintra Wilson, “Is There a Setting for High Strung?”, in New York Times: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.
Noun
prefade (plural prefades)
- (broadcasting) An audio fade prepared before broadcast.