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mus⋅tache

  [muhs-tash, muh-stash]
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–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.
Also, moustache.

Origin:
1575–85; < MF moustache < It mostaccio; see mustachio

Related forms:
mustached, adjective
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mus·tache also mous·tache   (mŭs'tāsh', mə-stāsh')   
n.  
  1. The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.
  2. Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as:
    1. A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.
    2. Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.
    3. Food or drink sticking conspicuously to the upper lip: wiped the milk mustache from my face.

[French moustache, from Italian dialectal mustaccio, from Medieval Greek moustakion, from Greek mustax, mustache, upper lip.]
mus'tached (mŭs'tāsht, mə-stāsht') adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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