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reˈtouching, vbl. n.|riː-|
[f. the verb + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb in various senses.
1730Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 323, I tried it without retouching, and found it perfectly cured, the Polarity regular throughout. 1816Singer Playing Cards 79 After having printed thirty or forty thousand copies these blocks will again bear retouching. 1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 422/1 Retouching can be done more quickly and finer upon this coating than upon any other.
2. A case or instance of this.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 465 He..gives to the whole the several touchings and retouchings requisite for finishing. 1842Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 308/2 Such retouchings are useless in frescos painted in the open air. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. Test. Introd. §19 Ancient authority was allowed to furnish not scattered retouchings but the whole body of the text.
3. attrib., as retouching-desk, retouching-easel, retouching-medium, retouching varnish, etc.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1925/2 Retouching-table. 1884Ibid., Suppl. 754/1 Retouching Frame. 1889E. J. Wall Dict. Photogr. 163 Some sort of retouching desk is needed. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 180 An ordinary retouching easel. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring–Summer 253/2 French Retouching Varnish, for oil or water color paintings. 1934H. Hiler Notes Technique Painting iii. 166 Retouching varnish is a quick-drying varnish used to bring out..parts of the picture which have gone flat or ‘dead’ in drying. |