recit
nounEtymology Borrowed from French récit.
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.2002, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, Cultural Encounters:
2
A narration.
3
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A recitative.