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Recto

A writ of right.

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A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in Engl…

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The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.

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The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.

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