tête-bêche

== English == === Etymology === From French tête-bêche (literally “head-to-foot”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɛtˈbɛʃ/ Rhymes: -ɛʃ === Adjective === tête-bêche (not comparable) (philately) Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column. === Noun === tête-bêche (plural tête-bêches) (publishing) A book where two texts are bound together, with one text rotated 180° relative to the other, such that when one text runs head-to-tail, the other runs tail-to-head. ==== See also ==== dos a dos === Further reading === tête-bêche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia dos-à-dos binding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == French == === Etymology === From tête + bêche(vet), the latter being an archaic word for "double-ended," e.g. lit bêchevet (“bed with heads at either end”), ultimately from Latin biceps (“two-headed”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɛt.bɛʃ/ === Adverb === tête-bêche (of two people or objects) head to foot, top to tail, head-to-tail; with the head of one being placed next to the feet of the other, heads and thraws; (of one object) with a head at both ends === Noun === tête-bêche m (plural têtes-bêches) (philately) a pair of tête-bêche stamps === Further reading === “tête-bêche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012