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‖ se-tenant, a. Philately.|sətənɑ̃|
[Fr., ‘holding together’.]
Of postage stamps: joined together as when printed; usu. applied to two or more stamps of different denominations or designs. Also as quasi-adv.
1911F. J. Melville Chats on Postage Stamps 49 Se tenant.—A French expression signifying that the stamps referred to have not been separated: usually employed in reference to an error, or variety, when still forming a pair with a normal stamp. 1938D. B. Armstrong Key to Stamp Collecting s.v., Se Tenant.—French phrase meaning ‘joined together’, and applied to a pair of stamps, one of which differs from the other. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVII. 715a/1 Se-tenant stamps are two or more unsevered from each other. The term is usually applied to unusual pairs or larger pieces in which one or more of the stamps differs from the other. Sometimes two denominations of stamps will be printed in one sheet and a pair of stamps of the different denominations would be described as ‘a se-tenant pair’. 1971[see funny a. 1 b]. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts July 535/2 The stamps have been printed as four se-tenant designs of one value, that is four different designs joined together on one sheet. |