moustache
nounEtymology
Used in English since the 16th century. From Middle French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from Early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a Pre-Greek substrate). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.
- derived from μουστάκιον
- derived from mustācium
- derived from mostaccio
- borrowed from moustache
Definitions
A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
- A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.
- A hint of the truth broke on him after Sedan, when he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries.
A curly bracket, { or }.
- In this example, the first is a string of text that contains the name property in double curly brackets (or “mustaches”)—this is the syntax for a tag.
The neighborhood
- neighborbeard
- neighborkemp
- neighborMovember
- neighbormustachio
- neighbornosebeard
- neighborsideburn
- neighborsideboard
- neighborwhisker
Derived
bemoustached, cavalry moustache, Charlie Chaplin moustache, Fu Manchu moustache, handlebar moustache, Hitler moustache, horseshoe moustache, milk moustache, mo, molestache, moustache cup, moustached, moustacheless, moustachelike, moustache ride, moustache-twirling, moustachial, moustachy, mustache ride, pedo-stache, pencil moustache, pornstache, stache, 'stache, tache, 'tache, toothbrush moustache, twirl one's moustache, walrus moustache, Zapata moustache
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for moustache. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA