Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
mustache .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mustache.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A growth of
facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ensor, who said he was a former Navy frogman and SEAL, had a thin moustache and wore a tattered green beret at a jaunty angle.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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His huge moustache is waxed to slippery perfection.
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You probably all know that his moustache is truly what defines him.
Bob $tencil Blog - How To Grow A Moustache « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I'm talking the original, manly, 70's Brawny man, with the bitchin 'moustache, not this lame Bruce Campbell wannabe that beat me up in middle school for playing magic cards.
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In other photographs, the moustache is bigger – even more magnificent, like when he was there in 1974.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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(And apparently the female moustache is quite common in the American Mid-West. * duck*)
Norah the Gender Spy Sharon Bakar 2006
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Godamit: My white moustache is worth more than your brown moustache!
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The moustache is reason enough, let alone him being a unifier who amazes me by his ability to put forward ideas I don't agree with and still make me think that they sound utterly reasonable and well thought-out.
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We evolved from apes and are still apes, less hairy maybe (unless you originated from the mediteranean where your beard grows up to your eyes and your eyebrows up to your hairline and even the women sport a thin moustache) and more ingenious, but apes nonetheless.
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He does credit himself with a good sniffer though and claims that his thick moustache is both a blessing – pleasant smells linger longer – and a curse – the bad ones do too.
the_grene_kni3t commented on the word moustache
I much prefer "moustache" with the stress on the second syllable.
December 29, 2006
milosrdenstvi commented on the word moustache
Remarkable comparing the number of listings of this spelling vs. the more common in usage mustache. I agree that it is so much cooler with the extra letter. But I can't really say why.
May 26, 2009