fade-away

From the verb phrase fade away.

fade-away (plural fade-aways)

1. A fading away.
   • 2011, Chuck Eddy, Rock and Roll Always Forgets (page 265)

     To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […]

   • 2015, Gabriele Rippl, Handbook of Intermediality: Literature – Image – Sound – Music (page 558)

     Instead of using a theatre's large stage, the video works with close-ups, side shots, exaggerated silhouettes and fade-aways, which are more suitable for the television screen.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (art, slang) A technique of painting young women, by having their clothes fade into the background

   The outline of the "fade-away" girl's blue dress disappeared amidst the blue surroundings.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:fade-away.

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