selvage
Example Sentences
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Think blazer coats with white overstitching and cut as if to reveal the selvage edge of the fabric.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
Then, as you got older, you got those stiff, selvage jeans from A.P.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
You can also find Japanese selvage denim, Filson shirts and jackets, work boots that look like they’ll last a generation, safety glasses for hazardous manly activities, restored and hand-sharpened vintage axes and motorcycle helmets.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2019
That factory was a 112-year-old shrine to bluejeans and the last major manufacturer of selvage denim in the United States.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
At times the forest had a selvage of cane, and growths of arrow grass, bearing long white plumes twelve feet above us, and a pair of fan-shaped leaves resembling palm leaves.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
