Definition of "retold" [re•told]

• Past tense and past participle of retell. (verb)

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• "Ditto for HER KIND by Jane Cahill, a collection of Greek myths retold from a female perspective."
• "The Lion and the Hare retold from the Sanskrit by Ramsay Wood"
• "The traditional tales, "retold" by an illustrator, function as a mechanism for illustrators to capture the full ten percent royalty, and not have to split it with an separate individual author."