Retexture

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of weaving or forming again. countable, uncountable

    "On the Palingenesia, or New-birth of Society; which volume, as treating practically of the Wear, Destruction, and Retexture of Spiritual Tissues, or Garments, forms, properly speaking, the Transcendental or ultimate Portion of this my work on Clothes, and is already in a state of forwardness."

Verb
  1. 1
    To texture again; to give a new texture to. transitive

Example

More examples

"On the Palingenesia, or New-birth of Society; which volume, as treating practically of the Wear, Destruction, and Retexture of Spiritual Tissues, or Garments, forms, properly speaking, the Transcendental or ultimate Portion of this my work on Clothes, and is already in a state of forwardness."

Etymology

From re- + texture.

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