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boustrophedon

 : 
Adjective
 : 
bou=stro=phe=don

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun boustrophedon has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

boustrophedonn. [Gr. turning like oxen in plowing; to turn.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

boustrophedon, adj. & adv. (of written words) from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines.

Etymology
Gk (adv.) = as an ox turns in ploughing f. bous ox + -strophos turning
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