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Webster 1913 Edition
Mustache
Mus-tache′
(mŭs-tȧsh′; 277)
, Noun.
pl.
Mustaches
. [Written also
moustache
.] [F.
moustache
, It. mostaccio
visage, mostacchio
mustache, fr. Gr. μύσταξ
upper lip and the beard upon it; cf. μάσταξ
mouth: cf. Sp. mostacho
.] 1.
That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
2.
(Zool.)
A West African monkey (
Cercopithecus cephus
). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose. 3.
(Zool.)
Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
Definition 2024
mustache
mustache
English
Alternative forms
- (Commonwealth English) moustache
Noun
mustache (plural mustaches)
- A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:
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Derived terms
Translations
moustache — see moustache