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English
Etymology
From re- + texture.
Verb
retexture (third-person singular simple present retextures, present participle retexturing, simple past and past participle retextured)
- (transitive) To texture again; to give a new texture to.
Translations
Noun
retexture (countable and uncountable, plural retextures)
- 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
Latin
Participle
retextūre
- vocative masculine singular of retextūrus