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Recto

Recto \Rec"to\, n. [Abbrev. fr. LL. breve de recto. See Right.] (Law) A writ of right.

Recto

Recto \Rec"to\, n. [Cf. F. recto.] (Print.) The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recto

"right-hand page in an open book" (opposed to verso or reverso), 1824, from Latin recto (in recto folio), ablative of rectum "right," (see right (adj.1)).

Wiktionary
recto

n. 1 The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet or a leaf or a coin or a medal. 2 Therefore, (context printing English) the right-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an odd page number. 3 (context legal English) A writ of right.

WordNet
recto

n. right-hand page [ant: verso]

Usage examples of "recto".

On the recto of leaf 259: Thus endeth the Ship of Fooles, translated .

The fate of man, recto verso, is to go to his grave in a rented hearse-o.

Here, on the verso of the title page and beside the recto where the story began, was the copyright information.

Each recto page was text, each verso a picture, so that the whole short book had the feel of an illustrated fable.

It looked like most of the others, a simple octavo volume with a formula in verse on the recto and a woodcut of the finished posy on the facing page.

Un complejo sistema de tubos de cobre sobresalían de la pared que estaba encima del disco y se inclinaba hacia abajo en ángulo recto.

Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendumque est ne aratrum sanctae ecclesiae, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archiepiscopus, debeant trahere, nunc ove vetula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur a recto.

Los oscuros amos fueron desplazados hacia el sur del gran río Styx, Nilus o Nilo, que fluye hacia el norte desde las sombrías tierras interiores del continente, se vuelve casi en ángulo recto y sigue hacia el oeste a través de las praderas de Shem hasta desembocar en el gran mar.