Usually means: Writing alternates direction each line.
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  1. boustrophedon: Merriam-Webster
  2. boustrophedon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boustrophedon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boustrophedon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boustrophedon: Vocabulary.com
  6. boustrophedon: Wordnik
  7. boustrophedon: Wiktionary
  8. boustrophedon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. boustrophedon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. boustrophedon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Boustrophedon, boustrophedon: Dictionary.com
  12. boustrophedon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Boustrophedon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Boustrophedon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. boustrophedon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. boustrophedon: Rhymezone
  17. boustrophedon: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  18. Boustrophedon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. boustrophedon: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. boustrophedon: FreeDictionary.org
  21. boustrophedon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. boustrophedon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. boustrophedon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Boustrophedon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Boustrophedon: Unicode Glossary
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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boustrophedon: Medical dictionary

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  1. boustrophedon: A Word A Day
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  1. Boustrophedon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (boustrophedon)

adverb:  (historical, calligraphy, of writing) In a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right with each new line.
adjective:  (historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.
adjective:  (figuratively) Changing direction, going back and forth.
noun:  (historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

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