NOUN
- an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs'
How To Use boustrophedon In A Sentence
- The first is the back-and-forth meandering pattern known as boustrophedon.
- It was written on ostrich skin in the boustrophedon style, in which one line was read from left to right and the next from right to left and so on. Deeper
- In the same excavations on Temple Hill, Robinson found a second example of a similar Archaic sacrificial calendar incised, boustrophedon, in the epichoric Corinthian alphabet, this time on a fragmentary lead tablet.
- Or consider the Etruscan habit of writing in "boustrophedon style. Archive 2006-02-01
- Whereas, false boustrophedon, alternate lines instead of having vertical orientation will curl around upside down, this also being called Schlangenschrift which means snake-writing. 2007 October 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews
- P.O. Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS. Ulysses
- The only trick the designer has failed to borrow from ancient Greek inscriptions is the boustrophedon, the ‘ploughman style’ in which words are written with alternate lines left to right then right to left.
- P.O. Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS. Ulysses
- I couldn’t very well tell him the truth, that it was my own system, a boustrophedonic code based on six languages, three alphabets, a variety of symbols mathematical and chemical, and a hieroglyphic, designed to keep up with even the fastest of lecturers and leave me time to record nonverbal data, as well. A Letter of Mary
- Etruscan was sometimes written in boustrophedon fashion and sometimes from right to left in horizontal lines.
