retexture

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ texture

Verb[edit]

retexture (third-person singular simple present retextures, present participle retexturing, simple past and past participle retextured)

  1. (transitive) To give a new texture to.

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

retexture (countable and uncountable, plural retextures)

  1. The act of weaving or forming again.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for retexture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin[edit]

Participle[edit]

retextūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of retextūrus