be-mustached

See also: bemustached

English

Adjective

be-mustached (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of bemoustached
   • 1878 June 26, “Our Schools. […]”, in The Sioux City Daily Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, page [3], column 4:

     miss edith n. allen read the humorous essay of the evening, entitled “The Modern Aeneas.” She described the Aeneas of the books, his wanderings, his character, and his grand opinion of himself, and likened him to a be-gloved, be-caned, be-mustached young exquisite who leaves his home in the east to come west and grasp the fortune that he knew is waiting here ready for his hands to seize upon.

   • 1977 October 14, Charles Karmosky, “Sportscope”, in Daily Press, number 286, Newport News, Va., section “Tune-Up Under Fire Is Sensible”, page 31, column 2:

     The be-mustached guy thrives on work and it was better for him to have that one-inning tune-up rather than be idled both Wednesday and Thursday.

   • 2008 June 5, “The Enabler”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., column 5:

     On a recent Saturday afternoon, be-mustached basketball fans parsed through the Eastern Conference finals, while the Enabler ate cheese fries and debated the moral responsibilities of interventionist foreign policy with a neighbor.