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moustache

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

moustache US, mustache [məˈstɑːʃ]
n
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) the unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip, and sometimes down the sides of the mouth
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) a similar growth of hair or bristles (in animals) or feathers (in birds)
3. a mark like a moustache
[via French from Italian mostaccio, ultimately from Doric Greek mustax upper lip]
moustached  US, mustached adj
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

moustache
noun whiskers, face fungus (informal), mustachio, 'tash (informal) He was short and bald and had a moustache.
Translations
moustache mustache (US) [məsˈtɑːʃ] Nbigote m
to wear a moustachetener bigote
he's got a moustachetiene bigote
a tall man with a moustacheun hombre alto con bigote

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

moustache, (US) mustache
nSchnurrbart m

moustache [məˈstɑːʃ] nbaffi mpl
moustache [məˈstɑːʃ] nbaffi mpl

moustache
n moustache [məˈstaːʃ, (American ) ˈmastaʃ]
the hair on the upper lip of a man The young man has grown a moustache. snor شارِب мустак knír overskæg der Schnurrbart μουστάκι bigote vuntsid سبيل viikset moustache שָׂפָם मूंछ brkovi bajusz kumis yfirskegg baffi 口ひげ 코밑 수염 ūsai ūsas misai snor bart wąsy bigode mustaţă усы fúzy brki brkovi mustasch หนวด bıyık 鬍子 вуса مونچھ ria mép

moustache شارِب 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


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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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