moustache
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- moustaches
- (US spelling) mustache, mustaches
Etymology[edit]
Used in English since the 16th century. Via French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), from Proto-Indo-European *mendʰ- (“to chew”). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈstɑːʃ/, /məˈstɒʃ/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /məˈstæʃ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmʌstæʃ/, /məˈstæʃ/
Audio (US) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /məˈstaːʃ/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /məˈstɐːʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːʃ, -ɒʃ, -æʃ
Noun[edit]
moustache (plural moustaches)
- A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 555:
- Crabbe caught the eye of the oboist, an ancient man with dignified moustaches, and mimed that they were going round to the front, to watch the real thing, the shadows.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:moustache.
Usage notes[edit]
The plural forms moustaches and mustaches, while formerly popular equivalents for the facial hair on a man's upper lip, are now archaic, with the singular preferred.
Derived terms[edit]
- cavalry moustache
- Charlie Chaplin moustache
- Fu Manchu moustache
- handlebar moustache
- Hitler moustache
- horseshoe moustache
- milk moustache
- mo
- molestache
- moustache cup
- mustache ride
- pencil moustache
- philtrum moustache
- stache, 'stache
- tache, 'tache
- toothbrush moustache
- twirl one's moustache
- walrus moustache
- Zapata moustache
Translations[edit]
hair on upper lip
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See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Neapolitan mustaccio (compare Italian mostaccio), from early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive from Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /mus.taʃ/
audio (file) - Homophone: moustaches
Noun[edit]
moustache f (plural moustaches)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “moustache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French moustache.
Noun[edit]
moustache f (plural moustaches)
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