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moustache
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
François-Alexandre Galepides , known by the stage name Moustache , was a French actor and jazz drummer of Greek descent. He was born 14 February 1929 in Paris and died 25 March 1987 in Arpajon in a car accident.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see mustache . Related: moustachial .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES grow a beard/moustache handlebar moustache COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE black ▪ A darkly florid officer with black moustache walked briskly through the debris, gazing round as though looking for some one. ▪ He ...
Usage examples of moustache.
He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty girl.
The barista was a round man with a black moustache and a stained apron.
With ten of his men behind him, Lord Beryn strode in, a tall man, raw-boned and grizzled, with sweeping grey moustaches and narrow dark eyes that darted this way and that.
Ori Lavin, normally a calm, pragmatic Pelorist, almost a caricature of that sect, had reacted to Bilong as if to a shot of rejuvenating hormones, and sleeked his moustache every time she undulated by.
As it died away, heavy footsteps approached and the door opened to reveal a broad man with iron grey hair brilliantined in a side parting and a toothbrush moustache.
He had olive skin, hollow cheeks and a pencil moustache, his hair brilliantined and parted in the centre.
The head is round, the lips thick and bristled with moustaches, the body is elongated, and the tail terminated by a crescent-shaped flapper.
Hawk laughed, braying out a long snarling laugh through yellow teeth, gray moustaches and a bronchitic throat.
First came Burra, a merchant not much older than Verrarc, with yellow hair and a thick yellow moustache to match.
He was as meticulous as ever in his silver armor and crimson cape, his head naked, his beard and moustache trimmed perfectly.
The servant stood motionless, a rotund, mouthy statue with an obstinate stare, only his trembling moustache a sign of his displeasure.
From the Least Common Multiple up to the Greatest Common Divisor, from the thin, poker-like Quotient with the fierce white moustache to the enormous, puffy Multiplicand, Sara thought they were the most pompous lot she had ever seen.
It is a happy Sunday party, all the picnickers in heavy clothes, the ladies with clasped parasols, the men with bowler hats and walrus moustaches, all handsomely arrayed on a blanket in a clearing, against a backdrop of steeply slanting shafts of light and trees of unbelievable grandeur.
The little shops, the wine shops with their bay windows of small leaded glass, and the crusty opulence of the bottles of old port and sherry and the burgundies, the mellow homely warmth and quietness of the interior, the tailor shops, the tobacco shops with their selected grades of fine tobacco stored in ancient crocks, the little bell that tinkled thinly as you went in from the street, the decorous, courteous, yet suavely good-natured proprietor behind the counter, who had the ruddy cheeks, the flowing brown moustache and the wing-collar of the shopkeeper of solid substance, and who would hold the crock below your nose to let you smell the moist fragrance of a rare tobacco before you bought, and would offer you one of his best cigarettes before you left--all of this gave somehow to the simplest acts of life and business a ritualistic warmth and sanctity, and made you feel wealthy and secure.
Freshly roused from his bunk the Dutchman wore no wig on his shaven head but his fine pointed moustaches showed him to be a man of fashion.