recit.

American  

abbreviation

Music.

1. recitative.

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Example Sentences

But there was even worse: a female laureate licensed by the Institute, Madame Augustus Craven, author of Recit d'une soeur, of Eliane and Fleaurange, puffed into reputation by the whole apostolic press.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

Her brother Louis was born in 1680, and was therefore, as stated in the Recit, twelve years old in 1692.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis

Nous nommasmes la dicte baye la Sainct Laurens, Brief Recit, 1545, D'Avezac ed. p.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)

It appears from Tanguay, Dictionnaire Genealogique, that Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Vercheres was born in April, 1678, which corresponds to the age given in the Recit.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis

This book, well called his Brief Recit et Succincte Narration, is quite as easy for an Englishman to read in French as Shakespeare is for a Frenchman to read in English.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry