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tache

American  
[tach] / tætʃ /

noun

Archaic.
  1. a buckle; clasp.


tache 1 British  
/ tæʃ, tɑːʃ /

noun

  1. archaic a buckle, clasp, or hook

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

tache 2 British  
/ tæʃ /

noun

  1. informal short for moustache

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tache

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French < Germanic. See tack 1

Example Sentences

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"Another great daddy!! X I love u so much and I love that major tache u had for my christening," she wrote.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2018

The thick rug of hair and tache have gone, the specs have gone, even the ski-slope chin has gone.

From The Guardian Mar. 28, 2016

Wax is permitted and the tache can be as wide as you like.

From BBC Dec. 20, 2013

Sam Allardyce's Movember tache looked magnificent and the evening called for his team to cement their place in the top six, to keep the Upton Park bubbles buoyant.

From The Guardian Nov. 19, 2012

He used button instead of tache, capital for chapiter, and made Hebrew proper names in the New Testament conform to the usage of the Old.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder

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