recit

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7
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8
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5

Definition of recit

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

  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.”
  2. A narration.
  3. A recitative.

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Etymology

Borrowed from French récit.

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