mustachio

[muh-stah-shoh, -shee-oh, -stash-oh, -stash-ee-oh]

noun, plural mus·ta·chios.

a mustache.

Origin of mustachio

1545–55; < Spanish mostacho and its source, Italian mostaccio, variant of mostacchio < Medieval Greek moustáki, Doric Greek mýstax, stem mystak- upper lip, mustache

Related formsmus·ta·chioed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for mustachioed

Contemporary Examples of mustachioed

Run breathlessly and pointlessly after his mustachioed shadow?
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As the mustachioed fun of No Shave November sweeps the country, its roots as a charitable effort may be getting lost.
Behind the Movember Movement’s Fight to Keep Charity Tied to Mustache
Kevin Fallon
November 23, 2012
Yet another revealed the mustachioed show host signing off at the end while taking a puff of his signature cigar, underwater.
The Absurdist Genius of Ernie Kovacs
Andy Battaglia
April 15, 2011

Historical Examples of mustachioed

These mustachioed gentry are by no means the rage at present in Olympus.
Ixion In Heaven
Benjamin Disraeli
There was a young fellow of about five-and-twenty, mustachioed and smartly dressed, in the coach with me.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
George Otto Trevelyan
Her presence protects us, and we will ensure her safety better than her mustachioed gentry.
Egmont
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Their hair was closely cut, and they had the whiskerless cheek, the beardless chin, and the mustachioed lip of the "regulation."
The British Expedition to the Crimea
William Howard Russell
He is a mustachioed, dandyish-looking fellow, and stared through his quizzing glass in a style quite amusing.
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837
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British Dictionary definitions for mustachioed

mustachioed

adjective

often jocular having a moustache, esp when bushy or elaborately shaped

mustachio

noun plural -chios

(often plural when considered as two halves) often jocular a moustache, esp when bushy or elaborately shaped

Word Origin for mustachio

C16: from Spanish mostacho and Italian mostaccio

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Word Origin and History for mustachioed

adj.

1817, from mustachio (1550s), from Spanish mostacho and directly from Italian mostaccio (see mustache). The noun was superseded by mustache, but the adjective has endured.