Etymology

tête-bêche

Today it means: Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column. Full definition →

French tête-bêche
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  1. French · borrowed fromtête-bêche
  2. English todaytête-bêche

From French tête-bêche (literally “head-to-foot”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.