tête-bêche (redirected from tete-beche)

tête-bêche  (ttbsh)

adj.

Of, relating to, or being a pair of postage stamps printed with one upside-down in relation to the other, either deliberately or accidentally.

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[French : tête, head (from Old French teste, from Late Latin testa, skull; see tester¹) + bêche (short for obsolete béchevet, double head of a bed, from Old French : bes-, twice from Latin bis; see bis + chevet from Late Latin capitium, opening for the head in a tunic, from Latin, head covering, from caput, capit-, head; see triceps).]

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tête-bêche [tɛtˈbɛʃ]

adj

(Non-sporting Hobbies / Philately) Philately (of an unseparated pair of stamps) printed so that one is inverted in relation to the other

[from French, from tête head + bêche, from obsolete béchevet double-headed (originally of a bed)]