moustache

[muhs-tash, muh-stash]

noun

1. mustache.

moustache

/ məˈstɑːʃ /

noun

1. the unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip, and sometimes down the sides of the mouth

2. a similar growth of hair or bristles (in animals) or feathers (in birds)

3. a mark like a moustache

Other Word Forms

• moustached adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of moustache¹

C16: via French from Italian mostaccio, ultimately from Doric Greek mustax upper lip

Example Sentences

Sporting a conquistador moustache and thighs as thick as a gaucho's steak, the culture shock was severe when the Argentina wing arrived at Harlequins.

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He made his first appearance on Australian shores in the 2013-14 series when arms, legs and a moustache came together for Mitchell Johnson, allowing him to produce a performance for the ages.

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Bespectacled, with long hair and a beard and moustache, he seems more like a latter-day hippy than a tech whizz, and he is clearly proud as he shows me around his firm.

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A photograph from the early 1900s shows a man with a softly rounded belly and a straight white moustache.

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Last weekend in London's Soho Square he strutted against two dozen other men - and some women with drawn-on moustaches - in a catwalk contest to find the city's best "performative male".

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