recit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

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"[…] 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."

Borrowed from French récit.

recits (plural)

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