Your Favourite Philatelic Word

Vignette is fun, from French etymology.
Ghost tagging freaks as a phrase.
Rocket Mail for coolness.

rismoney, are you a Rocket Mail guy?
I was just going over my collection last night.
Been working on an idea for an exhibit for a long time, now. Maybe it's time to put it together.
Do you have any sources for rocket mail histories?

"Tete-beche," meaning "head-to-tail," is a great name.

I like "gum" for "glue". Not sure why we don't call it "glue"?

And color names. I still don't know "amber," "cerise," "sienna" (brown, I think) and "sepia"?

Kiloware!

postfrisch!

Interesting to see responses. Major like non-English words and a few like misused words in trade.

I cannot decide.

L@@K!

I also heard this one once and thought what the heck? Goldbeater's skin - I had to look up the meaning now because I couldn't remember: According to Linn's "A thin, tough, translucent paper. The 1886 issue of Prussia was printed in reverse on goldbeater's skin, with the gum applied over the printing. These stamps are brittle and virtually impossible to remove from the paper to which they are affixed."

Tete-beche has always been a favorite of mine - I see I'm not alone. After reading some of the comments though I have to agree with obliterate and timbromania!! haha

Lots of great stuff, keep em coming!

One I had to look up recently that I quite like - French colour term "lie-de-vin" - literally "wine lees".

Below stamp - "lie-de-vin et olive" in Yvert, "claret and olive green" in Scott.

Mine is the color name used in Scott for US #214: vermilion. As a very young collector (age 7 or so?) that was one of my very favorite stamps simply because of the color! I had never heard of vermilion before and it sounded quite exotic.

Perce en arc or any of those odd roulettes you find once in a while.

water activated

"terribly difficult," as often seen in auction catalogs, e.g., "... minor faults yet still a presentable example of this terribly difficult issue."

I like it when words related to hunting get used like "elusive" (i.e., hard to find) or "dangerous" (i.e., easy to fake).

Also, "selvedge" when used instead of "selvage." I think this sort of "logical" substitution has an official name but it escapes me at the moment.

A term I don't get to use very often:

Completed!