mous·tache

[muhs-tash, muh-stash]
noun

mous·tached, adjective
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moustache or mustache (məˈstɑːʃ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  the unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip, and sometimes down the sides of the mouth
2.  a similar growth of hair or bristles (in animals) or feathers (in birds)
3.  a mark like a moustache
 
[C16: via French from Italian mostaccio, ultimately from Doric Greek mustax upper lip]
 
mustache or mustache
 
n
 
[C16: via French from Italian mostaccio, ultimately from Doric Greek mustax upper lip]
 
mous'tached or mustache
 
adj
 
mus'tached or mustache
 
adj

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Moustache is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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moustache
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moustache

hair grown on the upper lip by men. The wearing of mustaches, like beards, has been since antiquity a reflection of such factors as climate (local or temporal), custom, religious belief, and personal taste. It was usual in the past to make no distinction between a mustache and other facial hair such as a beard or whiskers, as these were usually worn together. As early as 2650 BC, however, Egyptian artifacts show a pencil-line mustache with no beard

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Example sentences
He had salt-and-pepper hair, a fat silver moustache, and chomped an even fatter
  cigar.
Subject had a thin moustache, otherwise clean shaven.
The mayor had a handlebar moustache and a wide, brutal face, which was wreathed
  in cigarette smoke.
Facial patterns commonly make a terrapin look as if it has a moustache or is
  wearing lipstick.
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