English

Man with moustache

Alternative forms

• moustaches
• mustache, mustaches

Noun

moustache ‎(plural moustaches)

1. A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter IX”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   For usage examples of this term, see Citations:moustache.

Usage notes

The plural forms moustaches and mustaches were formerly popular equivalent terms for the facial hair on the lip of one man, but these uses are now archaic with the singular now preferred.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• beard
• sideburn, sideboard
• whisker

French

Etymology

From Borrowing from Neapolitan mustaccio (compare Italian mostaccio), itself, possibly through an intermediate Late Latin *mustaceum, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον ‎(moustákion), from Ancient Greek μύσταξ ‎(mústax).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mus.taʃ/

Noun

moustache f ‎(plural moustaches)

1. moustache, mustache

See also

• barbe f

Anagrams

• mouchâtes
• touchâmes

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from French moustache.

Noun

moustache f ‎(plural moustaches)

1. (Jersey) moustache