selvage

Example Sentences

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“My existence is selvage denim at this point, it’s a vintage Hermès bag,” Kanye said.

From New York Times

You thought you were pretty cool back in the George W. Bush years for rolling the cuffs on your selvage jeans and spinning Grizzly Bear’s “Yellow House” on vinyl.

From New York Times

And the introduction of England’s first selvage fabric mill, in Lancashire, could change even that.

From New York Times

When my mother sewed on her old foot-pedal Singer, I heard the words “bobbin,” “remnant,” “selvage.”

From New York Times

Witness the varieties of distinction now available in things that were once rather homogeneous commodities, like coffee and blue jeans; who had even heard of “single origin” or “selvage” a few decades ago?

From The Guardian