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Retouch   Listen
verb
Retouch  v. t.  
1.
To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
2.
(Photog.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.





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"Retouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Marot, in his Rifacciamento of the Roman de la Rose, left some of the obsolete phrases, while he got rid of others; cette bigarrure de langage vieux et moderne, was with him writing no language at all. The same circumstance occurred abroad, when they resolved to retouch and modernise the old French metrical version of the Psalms, which we are about to notice. It produced the same controversy and the same dissatisfaction. The church of Geneva adopted an improved version, but the charm of ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli


Words linked to "Retouch" :   colour, color in, colourise, color, enhance, colour in


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