se-tenant

or se ten·ant

[ suh-ten-uhnt, set-n-ahn, suh-tuh-nahn ]

nounPhilately.
  1. a group of stamps that differ in color, value, or design but are printed together on the same sheet and are collected without separating the stamps.

Origin of se-tenant

1
1910–15; <French: literally, standing, remaining, holding together, equivalent to se 3rd-person singular reflexive pronoun + tenant present participle of tenir to hold (see tenant)

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British Dictionary definitions for se tenant

se tenant

/ French (sə tənɑ̃) /


adjective
  1. denoting two postage stamps of different face values and sometimes of different designs in an unseparated pair

noun
  1. such a pair of stamps

Origin of se tenant

1
literally: holding together

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