Noun: proper left
Sample Sentences
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The key in the lock served to open the proper left-hand door, while the proper right door was secured by a hook and eye of forged iron […] [2006 April, Jean M Burks, “Quebec country furniture at the Shelburne Museum”, in Magazine Antiques, volume 169, number 4, page 124:]
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Detail of damage to plaster on proper left side of top chain [2009, Stephanie E. Hornbeck, “A Conservation Conundrum”, in African Arts, volume 42, number 3, page 52:]
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The nose and proper left ear were also inset, stone restorations, with dark resin visible surrounding the joints. [2012 May 2, “Search object details”, in British Museum, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2013:]
Nouns inflected like proper left
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
proper (in the sense of "its own") + left; from Latin proprius. See: Latin Nouns '
proprius'.