aleft

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ left.

Adverb

aleft (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) To or on the left-hand side.
    • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: or T N Longman and O Rees, , by Biggs and Cottle, , →OCLC:
      Once more away! and now
      The long descent is seen,
      A long, long, narrow path.
      Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
      Aleft the giddy precipice.

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