whiskering

plural whiskerings

1. countableuncountableWhiskers generally.

   In front of each ear was something that appeared to be incipient whiskerings.

   1927, Joseph Storer Clouston, The Lunatic in Love, page 161

2. countableuncountablefashionThe fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.

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

   2007 October 25, Armand Limnander, “Tangled in Ivy, With a Twist”, in New York Times

3. countableuncountablemediaA defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
4. countableuncountablecategory theoryThe act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.