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mustache

or mous·tache

[ muhs-tash, muh-stash ]

noun

  1. the hair growing on the upper lip
  2. such hair on men, allowed to grow without shaving, and often trimmed in any of various shapes.
  3. hairs or bristles growing near the mouth of an animal.
  4. a stripe of color, or elongated feathers, suggestive of a mustache on the side of the head of a bird.
  5. something resembling a mustache, as food or drink adhering to the upper lip:

    a mustache of milk.



mustache

/ məˈstɑːʃ /

noun

  1. the US spelling of moustache


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Derived Forms

  • musˈtached, adjective

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Other Words From

  • mustached adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mustache1

1575–85; < Middle French moustache < Italian mostaccio; mustachio

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Example Sentences

From the few photographs of him, we see a stout man with deep Indian features, a thick mustache and stoic face.

They have no reference point other than seeing the Mad Men dudes, or reading one article on Milk and Honey, and like a mustache.

My prom date, Red, sported a wiry mustache and drove a black-and-gold Camaro.

When the mustache-twirler asks her why she helped him, she says, “I know what you want.”

You know, like, throw on a sombrero and a poncho, maybe draw a mustache on my face?

Half a dozen men in that room had the same shade of hair and mustache, and the same ordinary blue eyes.

He had a waxed mustache which he was in the habit of twisting whenever in deep thought.

Kip Burland also recognized the handsome, energetic man with the sleek black hair and small, waxed mustache.

Carlson frowned, remained dramatically silent for a moment while he twisted his mustache.

Garnache leaned there, in that friendly shelter, to breathe, and he smiled grimly under cover of his mustache.

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