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Moustache - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Moustache : (noun)
1: an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked
younger after he shaved off his mustache" [syn: mustache]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Mustache \Mus*tache"\ (m[u^]s*t[.a]sh"; 277), n.; pl.
Mustaches. [Written also moustache.] [F. moustache, It.
mostaccio visage, mostacchio mustache, fr. Gr. my`stax upper
lip and the beard upon it; cf. ma`stax mouth: cf. Sp.
mostacho.]
1. That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair
left growing above the mouth.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A West African monkey ({Cercopithecus cephus).
It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the
nose.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of
the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Moustache : \Mous`tache"\, n. [F.]
Mustache.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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