mustache

Or mous·tache

[muhs-tash, muh-stash]

noun

1. the hair growing on the upper lip

2. such hair on men, allowed to grow without shaving, and often trimmed in any of various shapes.

3. hairs or bristles growing near the mouth of an animal.

4. a stripe of color, or elongated feathers, suggestive of a mustache on the side of the head of a bird.

5. something resembling a mustache, as food or drink adhering to the upper lip.

   a mustache of milk.

mustache

/ məˈstɑːʃ /

noun

1. the US spelling of moustache

Other Word Forms

• mustached adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mustache¹

1575–85; < Middle French moustache < Italian mostaccio; mustachio

Example Sentences

They go out of their way to compliment my perfectly arched eyebrows, but they completely ignore the mustache that I’m starting to grow.

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Cassiopeia made a soapy mustache of her own hair and Penelope’s, and then blew through the strands until soap bubbles floated lazily through the air.

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Yet we don’t feel the paranoia of eyeballs over the streets, even though it turns out that there’s no way to disguise Powell’s foxlike features under a silly stick-on mustache.

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The dark mustache he wore in his playing days has expanded into a neat salt-and-pepper beard and his body, well, it’s expanded too.

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Now, his head is shaved and the mustache has been gone since 1986.

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