tête-bêche

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — It's an odd little confection, the tête-bêche, but it's oddly pleasing. Each author gets a fair crack of the whip, with their own cover and top-billing, and the illusion of two separate books makes a head-to-tail volume seem somehow to be good value.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column. not-comparable
    — Liu himself is a professional stamp collector, and in 1972 he bought a tête-bêche pair of Qing dynasty stamps from an auction in London.

词形变化

tête-bêches plural

词源

词源 1
From French tête-bêche (literally “head-to-foot”).
词源 2
From French tête-bêche (literally “head-to-foot”).
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