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mustachio

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mus·ta·chio also mous·ta·chio  (m-stsh, -stsh-, -stäsh, -sh-)
n. pl. mus·ta·chios also mous·ta·chios
A mustache, especially a luxuriant one.

[Ultimately from Italian dialectal mustaccio, mustache; see mustache.]

mus·tachioed (-stshd, -stsh-d, -stäshd, -sh-d) adj.

mustachio [məˈstɑːʃɪˌəʊ]
n pl -chios
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) (often plural when considered as two halves) Often humorous a moustache, esp when bushy or elaborately shaped
[from Spanish mostacho and Italian mostaccio]
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Noun1.mustachio - a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)
moustache, mustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache"
Translations
mustachio
n pl <-s> → Schnauzbart m


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Bowls, Miss Crawley's large confidential butler (who, indeed, happened to be at the keyhole during the most part of the interview); and the Captain coming out, curling his mustachios, mounted the black charger pawing among the straw, to the admiration of the little blackguard boys collected in the street.
His face, greatly sunburnt, was more than half hidden by whisker and mustachio.
What with mustachios and whiskers, there was none of the rest of his face to be seen.
 
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