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mustache
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mustache has 1 sense
- mustache(n = noun.body) moustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache" is a kind of facial hair
is a part of beard, face fungus, whiskers
has particulars: soup-strainer, toothbrush, handle-bars, moustachio, mustachio, walrus moustache, walrus mustache
CIDE DICTIONARY
mustache, n. [F. moustache, It. mostaccio visage, mostacchio mustache, fr. Gr. my`stax upper lip and the beard upon it; cf. ma`stax mouth: cf. Sp. mostacho.].
- That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth. [1913 Webster]
- A West African monkey (
Cercopithecus cephus ). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose. [1913 Webster] - Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird. [1913 Webster]
- A stain or discoloration on the upper lip of a person; as, wearing a milk mustache. [PJC]
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