mous·tache

(mŭs′tăsh′, mə-stăsh′)

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moustache

(məˈstɑːʃ) or

mustache

1. (Hairdressing & Grooming) the unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip, and sometimes down the sides of the mouth

2. (Zoology) 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]

mousˈtached, musˈtached adj

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mus•tache

(ˈmʌs tæʃ, məˈstæʃ)

n.

1. the hair growing on the upper lip.

2. such hair on men, 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, on the side of the head of a bird.

[1575–85; < Middle French moustache < Italian mostaccio]

mus′tached, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

moustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache"

mustache

facial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)

beard, face fungus, whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

soup-strainer, toothbrush - slang for a mustache

handle-bars, moustachio, mustachio - a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)

walrus moustache, walrus mustache - a bushy droopy mustache

moustache

noun whiskers, face fungus (informal), mustachio, 'tash (informal) He was short and bald and had a moustache.

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Translations

شاربشَارِبٌشارِب

knír

overskæg

Schnurrbart Oberlippenbart

μουστάκι

bigote

بروت

viikset

moustache

मूछमूँछ

brk

bajusz

kumis

yfirskegg

baffi

口ひげ

콧수염

ūsai

ūsas

brki

mustasch

หนวด

bıyık

مونچھ

râu mépria

上嘴唇的胡子小胡子

moustache

mustache (US) [məsˈtɑːʃ] N → bigote m
to wear a moustache → tener bigote
he's got a moustache → tiene bigote
a tall man with a moustache → un hombre alto con bigote

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

moustache

[məˈstɑːʃ] n → moustache f
He's got a moustache → Il a une moustache.
a man with a moustache → un moustachu

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

moustache

, (US) mustache

n → Schnurrbart m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

moustache

[məˈstɑːʃ] n → baffi mpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

moustache

(especially American) mustache (məˈstaːʃ) , ((American) ˈmastaʃ) noun

the hair on the upper lip of a man. The young man has grown a moustache.

moustache

→ شَارِبٌ knír overskæg Schnurrbart μουστάκι bigote viikset moustache brk baffi 口ひげ 콧수염 snor bart wąsy bigode усы mustasch หนวด bıyık ria 小胡子

moustache

, mustache

n. bigote.

moustache

n bigote m

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He paraded his Musketeers before the Cardinal Armand Duplessis with an insolent air which made the gray moustache of his Eminence curl with ire.

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At the head of the table sat Vasili Andreevich in a black sheepskin coat, sucking his frozen moustache and observing the room and the people around him with his prominent hawk-like eyes.

'I just don't drink,' replied Nikita without lifting his eyes but looking askance at his scanty beard and moustache and getting the icicles out of them.

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The advice of the fourth was that the columns of the capitol be rubbed with oil of dog by a person having a moustache on the calf of his leg.

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As she placed the soup before the guest, who changed his attitude to a sitting one, he looked her full in the face, and his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache.

The landlady, who had been at one moment thinking within herself that this was a handsome man, at another moment that this was an ill-looking man, observed the nose coming down and the moustache going up, and strongly inclined to the latter decision.

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His face was brown like a nut; he had very bright and restless brown eyes; his dark hair was brushed back stiffly in front and cropped close behind, outlining a square and powerful skull; and he had a huge black moustache like the horns of a bison.

With the prompt French instinct for the politics of the street, the man with the black moustache had already run across to a corner of the cafe, sprung on one of the tables, and seizing a branch of chestnut to steady himself, shouted as Camille Desmoulins once shouted when he scattered the oak-leaves among the populace.

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His thick black moustaches, curled every morning with hot tongs by the barber at the corner of the quay, seemed to hide a perpetual smile.

On board the Tremolino, wrapped up in a black CABAN, the picturesque cloak of Mediterranean seamen, with those massive moustaches and his remorseless eyes set off by the shadow of the deep hood, he looked piratical and monkish and darkly initiated into the most awful mysteries of the sea.

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He was dressed in the height of the latest fashion, as well as he knew how to be; wore terrible moustaches, and had a rare provision of rings, eye- glasses, watch-guards, chains, &c.

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At the end of the fourth week, two other tumblers, white youths, being secured, the complete, builded turn was performed for the benefit of a slender, French-looking gentleman, with waxed moustaches. In the end he bought Barney, without haggling, at Collins's own terms and engaged Sammy and the other two tumblers as well.

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