moustache
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tæʃ, məˈstæʃ
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moustache or mustache (məˈstɑːʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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.
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| 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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Encyclopedia Britannica
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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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