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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Writing direction
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boustrophedon  Boustophredon  Boustraphedon  Boustrephedon  Boustrephodon
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An ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' WordNet 3.0
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An ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Boustrophedon is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style. Wikipedia
Writing in alternating directions Wikipedia Disambiguation
Form of writing, left-to-right and right-to-left in alternate lines Wikidata
Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines. Wiktionary
Writing that is alternately right-to-left and left-to-right. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
orthography
script directionality
PART OF
script directionality
DERIVATION
boustrophedonic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
DIFFERENT FROM
bidirectional text
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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boustrophedon
Wikipedia
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boustrophedon
Wikidata
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boustrophedon
Wiktionary
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boustrophedon
Wikipedia Redirections
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Boustophredon, Boustraphedon, Boustrephedon, Boustrephodon, Boustrofedon, Boustrophedon text, boustrophedonic, Boustrophodenic, Boustrophédon

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