Boustrophedon

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

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boustrophedon
boustrŏphēdŏn, adv., = βουστροφηδόν, from right to left and back again alternately , forwards and b...

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