tête-bêche

Meanings

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

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.

Etymology

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