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• se-tenant
  se-tenant

  noun

  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.
• se tenant
  se tenant

  adjective

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

se-tenant

American  

[suh-ten-uhnt, set-n-ahn, suh-tuh-nahn] / səˈtɛn ənt, ˌsɛt nˈɑ̃, sə təˈnɑ̃ /

Or se tenant

noun

Philately.

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.

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se tenant British  

/ sə tənɑ̃ /

adjective

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

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noun

1. such a pair of stamps

Etymology

Origin of se-tenant

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)