Definitions for mustacheˈmʌs tæʃ, məˈstæʃ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

mus•tacheˈmʌs tæʃ, məˈstæʃ(n.)

  1. the hair growing on the upper lip.

  2. such hair on men, often trimmed in any of various shapes.

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

    Category: Mammals

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

    Category: Ornithology

Origin of mustache:

1575–85; < MF moustache < It mostaccio

mus′tached(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. mustache, moustache(noun)

    an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

    "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. mustache(noun)ˈmʌs tæʃ, məˈstæʃ

    a line of hair on a man's upper lip

    to grow a mustache

Wiktionary

  1. mustache(Noun)

    A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mustache(noun)

    that part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth

  2. Mustache(noun)

    a West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose

  3. Mustache(noun)

    any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird


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