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Word of the Day – Boustrophedon

By April 6, 2017Word of the Day

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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