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recit

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Borrowed from French récit.

noun recits

  1. A short story. […] 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. A recitative.

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"recit." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/recit. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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recit. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/recit

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"recit." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/recit.

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@misc{recit_2026,
  title = {recit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/recit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}