recit

recit

See also: récit and rečit

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French récit.

Noun

recit (plural recits)

1. A short story.
   • 2002, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, Cultural Encounters:

     […] 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. (music) A recitative.

Anagrams

• Trice, citer, recti, recti-, retic, trice