单词 | tête-bêche |
释义 | tête-bêche ![]() adj. Of, relating to, or being a pair of similar objects or images arranged such that one is upside down in relation to the other: a tête-bêche pair of postage stamps. [French : tête, head (from Old French teste, from Late Latin testa, skull; see TESTER1) + bêche (short for obsolete béchevet, double head of a bed, from Old French : bes-, twice from Latin bis; see BIS + chevet, from Late Latin capitium, opening for the head in a tunic, from Latin, head covering, from caput, capit-, head; see TRICEPS).] tête-bêche adv. |
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