Noun: proper right
Sample Sentences
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Sennit for Hats […] always join on the upper side, because the under side is the proper right side of the sennit. [1834, S. B. Luce, Aaron Ward, “Knotting, Splicing, Etc.”, in Text-book of Seamanship, revised and enlarged edition, New York: Van Nostrand Company, published 1891, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2021, page 59:]
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There is a slight twist of the torso to the proper right, and the head is turned a little further. [1981, Martin Robertson, “The great change : late archaic and early classical”, in A Shorter History of Greek Art, Cambridge University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like proper right
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") + right; from Latin proprius. See: Latin Nouns '
proprius'.