recit.

American  

abbreviation

Music.

1. recitative.

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Example Sentences

The contemporary Recit d'une Religieuse Ursuline speaks of Frontenac with gratitude, as a friend and benefactor, as does also Mother Juchereau, superior of the Hotel-Dieu.

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

The other stanzas are paraphrased in the Arias and second Recit.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

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

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