whiskering

noun4

1. •
   Whiskers generally.

   • In front of each ear was something that appeared to be incipient whiskerings. — 1927
2. •
   The 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
3. •
   A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
4. •
   The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.