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retouch

[ verb ree-tuhch; noun ree-tuhch, ree-tuhch ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
Photography. to alter (a negative or positive) after development by adding or removing lines, lightening areas, etc., with a pencil, brush, or knife.
to dye, tint, or bleach (a new growth of hair) to match or blend with the color of an earlier and previously dyed growth.

an added touch to a picture, painting, paint job, etc., by way of improvement or alteration.
an act or instance of dyeing new growth of hair to blend with previously dyed hair.

retouch

/ riːˈtʌtʃ /

to restore, correct, or improve (a painting, make-up, etc) with new touches
photog to alter (a negative or print) by painting over blemishes or adding details
to make small finishing improvements to
archaeol to detach small flakes from (a stone) in order to make a tool

Origin of retouch¹

1675–85; < Middle French retoucher, equivalent to re- re- + toucher to touch

Should the coating crack at the knee or elbow joints, it is merely necessary to retouch it slightly at those places.

Different publications and different retouch artists would handle a photograph differently, and add different retouching to them.

That one should ever attempt to retouch the time-faded but beautiful pictures that the memory holds.

Occasional retouch, that appears to have been done by percussion flaking, is evident; but no regular pressure retouch is present.

This retouch appears to have been accomplished with indirect percussion or pressure flaking.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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