Both Uses of
renovate
in
The House of Mirth
- Mrs. Peniston, however, was at the moment inaccessible to remonstrance: since early morning she had been shut up with her maid, going over her furs, a process which formed the culminating episode in the drama of household renovation.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Gerty could smile now at her own early dream of her friend's renovation through adversity: she understood clearly enough that Lily was not of those to whom privation teaches the unimportance of what they have lost.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(renovate) to improve something that had deteriorated or become old -- especially a building