tête-bêche
English
Etymology
From French tête-bêche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛtˈbɛʃ/
Adjective
tête-bêche (not comparable)
- (philately) Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column.
French
Sardines laid out tête-bêche
Etymology
From tête + bêche(vet).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛt.bɛʃ/
Adverb
- (of two people or objects) head to toe, top to tail, head-to-tail
Noun
tête-bêche m (plural têtes-bêches)
- A pair of tête-bêche stamps.
Further reading
- “tête-bêche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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