tache

[ tach ]

nounArchaic.

a buckle; clasp.

Origin of tache

1400–50; late Middle English <Middle French <Germanic. See tack¹

Words Nearby tache

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How to use tache in a sentence

Dicky catches sight of Duane and guffaws: “Hey, brother, you got coke all over in your muss-tache.”
Stacks: Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band | Grover Lewis | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In a classic 2007 pic, a bronzed Lindsay Lohan looks chocolate-brown between her nose and upper lip—it's a tan-tache.
Spray-Tan Horror Stories | Anneli Rufus | July 7, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
It is the tache blanche remarquable of De Freycinet's chart.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] | Phillip Parker King
Wisha, begor, 't is your reverence was wanted to tache these blackguards a lesson.
My New Curate | P.A. Sheehan
An what are their mothers put in the wurruld for but to tache them?
In Wild Rose Time | Amanda M. Douglas

In default of any concrete data each may be estimated as half the size of tache, or 800 persons apiece.
The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California | Sherburne F. Cook
Father Martin in the description of his trip implies that there were 4,000 people living in the vicinity of tache.
The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California | Sherburne F. Cook

British Dictionary definitions for tache (1 of 2)

tache¹

/ (tæʃ, tɑːʃ) /

noun

archaic a buckle, clasp, or hook

Origin of tache

C17: from Old French, of Germanic origin; compare tack 1

British Dictionary definitions for tache (2 of 2)

tache²

/ (tæʃ) /

noun

informal short for moustache

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