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Putting something back the way it was, minus the part where it fell apart.
means The act of returning something — a building, a reputation, a painting, a broken relationship — to an earlier, better condition.
from From Latin restaurare, meaning 'to rebuild or repair,' built from re- ('again') plus a root related to instaurare, 'to renew or set up.' The word passed through French restauration before settling into English. Its most famous historical use names a specific moment: 'the Restoration' of the English monarchy in 1660, when Charles II was put back on the throne after years without one — a reminder that the word has always carried this sense of something displaced finally returned to its rightful place.
- shared root
- restaurant literally means a restorative broth
- capital R
- The Restoration also names England's 1660 monarchy comeback
- art world rule
- good restorers sign their work in removable layers
- ecology version
- restoration ecology rebuilds whole vanished habitats