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▪ I. reˈpaint, n.|riː-|
[re- 5 a: cf. next.]
1. A substance used in repainting; a layer of colour put on in repainting.
1891Portfolio Mar. 51 There were parts of the surface from which it removed the original fresco-pigments or the tempera repaints. 1901R. Fry Let. 10 Dec. (1972) I. 182, I am at present cutting off the sky with a knife and have found a marvellous landscape underneath, entirely concealed by repaints. 1935Burlington Mag. Nov. 202/1 The picture was..then almost entirely covered with re-paint.
2. The fact of repainting or being repainted. Also fig. and attrib.
1893Pall Mall G. 23 Jan. 2/1 Although it has suffered somewhat from repaint..it still remains one of the most beautiful single heads produced by Renaissance painting. 1964G. Marx Let. 27 Oct. (1967) 258, I will be in London in April, doing a repaint job on my old quiz show. 1968S. Jay Sleepers can Kill vii. 74 The car was a black Opel in need of a repaint. 1970J. Wainwright Prynter's Devil iii. 50 Vac the room first, kiddo. Then start the repaint job.
3. Something repainted, esp. a golf-ball.
1922Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert i. 16 Why, you are a pearl among women, the queen of your sex... You make the rest look like battered repaints. 1931M. Allingham Look to Lady xiv. 148 ‘How's the car business?’.. ‘I sold a lovely repaint in Norward last week... We faked it up lovely—registration book and everything.’ 1936Sun (Baltimore) 1 Aug. 817, I should like to know whether they [sc. golf balls] are new ones or repaints. 1955Times 23 Aug. 4/4 Repaints cost as much as new balls used to.
▪ II. reˈpaint, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To paint again (lit. and fig.).
a1700Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 159 Till vanishing Sleep Edmund re-possess'd, Repainting it in Dreams upon his Breast. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy IV. xxv, The coach was re-painted upon my father's marriage. 1815J. Scott Vis. Paris Pref. 9 The first thing they do with one of Raphael's pictures is to repaint it. 1830Lytton P. Clifford xxxiii, A solicitor, the very rails round whose door were so sadly in want of re-painting! 1888H. Ellis in Ford's Plays (Mermaid Ser.) p. xiv, The conflict between the world's opinion and the heart's desire he paints and repaints.
Hence reˈpainted ppl. a., reˈpainting vbl. n.
1864Reader 26 Nov. 667/3 The inferior and repainted works at Fiesole. 1884Athenæum 2 Feb. 157/1 There is much repainting on the faces. |
