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Meaning of tête-bêche | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/tɛtˈbɛʃ/

Definitions

Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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