fading

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Here and there it has some of the indistinctness of hoar antiquity: its fadings away are beautifully characteristic.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 by Various

Knights in armor kept watch over billiard tables whose green baize had survived the fadings of two hundred years.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)

All are perennial; or if they do indeed die, their fadings away are invisible in the constant succession—the sweet unbroken series of everlasting bloom.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Along the counter stand the poilus, young, old, small, and large, all wearing various fadings of the horizon blue, and helmets often dented.

From A Volunteer Poilu by Beston, Henry