Boustrophedon (adj) (adverb)
bow-strof-ee-den
Going from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines, in the way a football pitch is mown.
From Greek it means literally as an ox turns in ploughing
Example sentences
“It was hard to follow the letter as he’d written it boustrophedon”
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