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▪ I. retouch, n.|riːˈtʌtʃ|
[Prob. ad. F. retouche (1507): cf. next.]
1. A second or further touch given to some part of a picture, composition, etc., with a view to improving it.
1703Steele Tender Husb. iv. i, Then so many Touches and Retouches, when the Face is finish'd. 1793A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 237 Dr. Vyse received it with these retouches, praised the epitaph, and thanked me. 1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 391/1 Some parts, which it may reasonably be inferred are retouches,..are quite flat and dim. 1878tr. Villari's Machiavelli (1898) I. 157 Those retouches opened the way to new and original creation.
2. Archæol. Secondary trimming or shaping applied to a stone implement at some period after initial manufacture; an instance of this.
[1921M. C. Burkitt Prehist. iv. 65 Having blocked out the implement in the rough it had then to be finished with what is known as secondary working or trimming (French, retouche).] 1926D. A. E. Garrod Upper Palæolithic Age in Britain i. 38 The tang is well worked, with a steep retouch along both sides and enough of the upper part is left to give an idea of the form. 1932Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXII. 261 A fair proportion of lunates and other microliths showed a peculiar retouch which was found on three or four specimens, only at Shukba. 1957V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) xi. 211 The technique of bifacial retouch on flint flakes and blades is more likely to have reached the north from the south-east than from the south-west. 1964H. Hodges Artifacts vii. 103 The initial roughing out of a stone tool is usually referred to as primary flaking, while any later working..is called secondary flaking or retouch. 1977Antiquaries Jrnl. LVII. 212 Flint scraper:..limited fine steep marginal retouch.
▪ II. retouch, v.|riːˈtʌtʃ|
[Prob. ad. F. retoucher (13th c., = Sp. and Pg. retocar, It. ritoccare): see re- and touch v.]
1. trans. To touch again with a view to improving; to amend or improve by fresh touches; to touch up.
1685Burnet Let. in Trav. (1687) i. 97 All [the monastery] was retouched by the famous Guido Reni, yet it is now again much decayed. 1686Ibid. iii. 8, I have retoucht the Letter that I writ to you last year. 1711Addison Spect. No. 83 ⁋10 One..who was very busie in retouching the finest Pieces, tho' he produced no Originals of his own. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 176 ⁋7 When the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched. 1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. II. xlvi, He has retouched a copy, that was painted by one of his scholars. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xiv, I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 201 The negative to be retouched is prepared [etc.].
b. absol. To give retouches.
1735Pope Prol. Sat. 64 Lintot..will think your price too much: Not, Sir, if you revise it, and retouch. 1757Gray Let. to Wharton 7 Oct., The difficult part is now got over, and nothing now remains but to polish, and retouch a little. 1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 391/1 It was the practice to retouch when the fresco was dry.
2. a. To touch upon, to speak of, to introduce or bring in, again. rare.
1701Norris Ideal World i. 397 It may not be unexpedient more expressly to retouch what has been so often insinuated. 1752Avison Mus. Express. 133 The accidental Subjects are..generally repeated, or at least so retouched in the Progress of the Fugue as to render them easily known.
b. To magnetize afresh. rare.
1730Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 325, I took off the Armour and bound it to that which was newly touched, and there⁓with retouched that which I had disarmed.
Hence reˈtouched ppl. a.
1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 391/1 The retouched parts are invariably dim. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 202 There is no reason..why..the individual style of the worker should be more apparent than in a retouched negative. |