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moustache

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mous·tache  (mstsh, m-stsh)
n.
Variant of mustache.

moustache or US mustache
Noun
unshaved hair growing on the upper lip [French, from Italian mostaccio]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.moustachemoustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his 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
Translations
Spanish moustache [məsˈtɑːʃ] (US), mustache [ˈmʌstæʃ] nbigote m
French moustache (US), mustache [məsˈtɑːʃ] nmoustache(s) f(pl)
German moustache (US) mustache [məsˈtɑːʃ] nSchnurrbart m
Italian moustache [məsˈtɑːʃ] nbaffi mpl

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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.
For the rest, he was large and tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy state, but shot with red.
One had only to look at him, from the slant of his bald forehead and the curve of his beautiful fair moustache to the long patent-leather feet at the other end of his lean and elegant person, to feel that the knowledge of "form" must be congenital in any one who knew how to wear such good clothes so carelessly and carry such height with so much lounging grace.
 
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