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recit en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French récit.

Meanings

  1. A short story.
    • […] of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French recit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four recits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved, was misloved and lost. 2002, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, Cultural Encounters:
  2. A narration.
  3. A recitative.

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