refashionmentn.
/(ˌ)riːˈfaʃnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriˈfæʃ(ə)nm(ə)nt/ Now rare.
Originally: †a thing that has been refashioned (obsolete). In later use: the action or process of refashioning something.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun]
reworking?1608
remodelling1785
refashioning1799
refashionment1829
remodelment1838
recast1841
réchauffage1847
reshaping1872
rejigging1884
rejiggering1920
re-profiling1962
rejig1965
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun] > product of
refashionment1829
recast1841
rework1906
makeover1925
1829 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry II. 3 These epic poems are mere Swabian refashionments (rifacimento is the Italian word which I attempt to recoin..) of pre~existing Lombard story-books.
1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 542 Danish and Icelandic versions and refashionments..exist.
1874 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. IV. iv. x. 1067/1 Sheridan's Trip to Scarborough, acted in 1777, a refashionment of Vanbrugh's Relapse, 1697.
1916 Musical Q. 2 375 Shakespeare's dramas..have always fired the imagination of musicians and tempted them to undertake their musical refashionment.
1977 Xinhua Gen. News Service (Nexis) 1 May Although imperatives have been unstated..over the past two decades, they are binding on the refashionment of India's technical and industrial development spending and policies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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