selvage

Example Sentences

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Then, as you got older, you got those stiff, selvage jeans from A.P.C.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

She writes from the selvage edge, prose that does not unravel: “My attention was always on the periphery, on what I could see and taste and touch.”

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 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

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

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2018

And "selvage," escaping the first and last objections, may be thought to incur the middle one.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George