tête-bêche /tɛtˈbɛʃ/adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column.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. — 2017 noun1 •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. formstête-bêches
