Boustrophedon

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1. 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.

2. Noun

an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally ‘as the ox ploughs’
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