retexture

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ texture.

Verb

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

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

Translations

to give a new texture to

• Hindi: फिर से बनाना (phir se banānā)
• Sindhi: وَر اُڻَڻُ

Noun

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.

References

• “retexture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

retextūre

1. vocative masculine singular of retextūrus