Hypertext Webster Gateway: "moustache"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Moustache \Mous`tache"\, n. [F.]
Mustache.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
moustache
n : an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked
younger after he shaved off his mustache" [syn: {mustache}]
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