mouche
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See also: mouché
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French mouche. Doublet of Musca.
Noun[edit]
mouche (plural mouches)
- A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
- 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
- They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.
- 1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9:
- The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.
- 2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan (→ISBN), page 203:
- In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.
- 2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc. (→ISBN)
- LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip. His brown hair is shoulder length. Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance.
- 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French mousche, from Old French mousche, musche, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mouche f (plural mouches)
- fly (insect)
- bullseye (center of a target)
- (historical) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas
- (Louisiana) bee
- Synonym: mouche à miel
- soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip)
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Verb[edit]
mouche
- first-person singular present indicative of moucher
- third-person singular present indicative of moucher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of moucher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of moucher
- second-person singular imperative of moucher
References[edit]
- “mouche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading[edit]
- “mouche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
mouche f (plural mouches)
- Alternative spelling of muche
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