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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Of a postage stamp, printed upside down relative to the following stamp of the same row or column.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, philately
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing
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History
From French tête-bêche (literally “head-to-foot”).
