The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
(Zo["o]l.) A West African monkey ( Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.
(Zo["o]l.) Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
A stain or discoloration on the upper lip of a person; as, wearing a milk mustache. [informal]
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n. (plural of mustache English)
Usage examples of "mustaches".
She studied it and restudied it, gnawed her mustaches and refigured, though all but the finest decimal exactitudes of current star-distances were in her memory.
She sat and gnawed her mustaches, wishing she dared talk back and forth with Dur Tahar over there, who assuredly knew something about kifish mentality.
Pyanfar sat and gnawed her mustaches, gnawed a hangnail on her third finger.
Pyanfar fretted and gnawed her mustaches, and walked along near the pair, her heart speeding as she saw other departure lights start flashing all down the row.
A belt clicked, and Pyanfar gnawed her mustaches and fought the hypnosis of the blinking lights, the wash of green on the board- Going to lose her, was the thought that wanted through, and she would not let it.
Kashgar was only an under-lieutenant, almost boyish despite a great hooked nose and thick mustaches like inverted horns, yet he moved with open reluctance, and Valda's voice was darker and acrid as he went on, unbuckling his sword belt and handing that over, too.
A weedy fellow in a black coat, he knuckled his waxed mustaches in an amused way, careful not to spoil the points.
Neald said with a laugh, giving one of his thin waxed mustaches a twist, "but I'd not be calling them great thieves.
He had long white mustaches that fell past his chin and a long narrow beard that hung to his chest.
Gray streaked his black hair and the thick mustaches that curled around his mouth like down-turned horns.
Aghan wore thick mustaches like Bashere's and carried a plain wooden box with no lid under his arm.
Lean to the point of skinny, with a pickaxe for a nose and thick mustaches in the Taraboner style, Dannil stood out even when you could not see his face clearly.
One, a lean young fellow with curled mustaches, had a silver pin in the shape of a sword on his high collar.
Pyanfar Chanur sat in this sanctuary gnawing her mustaches and drinking cup after cup of lukewarm gfi amid her scribbles on the nav and log records.
But she saw that pained drawing about Geran's mustaches, the quivering flick of Geran's ears, well-ringed with voyages.