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reˈwhiten, v.|riː-| [re- 5 a.] To whiten or whitewash again.
1790J. Williams Shrove Tuesday in A Cabinet, etc. (1794) 27 Sooner may ye re-whiten the chaste Snow..Than wipe the odium from a nymph beguil'd. 1854tr. Marq. de Custine's Russia 158 These men..seem to support themselves like insects against the edifices which they rewhiten. |