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Dictionary: mus·tache  mous·tache (mŭs'tăsh', mə-stăsh') pronunciation
also n.
  1. The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.
  2. Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as:
    1. A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.
    2. Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.
    3. Food or drink sticking conspicuously to the upper lip: wiped the milk mustache from my face.

[French moustache, from Italian dialectal mustaccio, from Medieval Greek moustakion, from Greek mustax, mustache, upper lip.]

mustached mus'tached (mŭs'tăsht, mə-stăsht') adj.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip
  Synonym: moustache


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - overskæg

Nederlands (Dutch)
snor

Français (French)
n. - moustache

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schnurrbart

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μουστάκι

Italiano (Italian)
baffi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bigode (m)

Русский (Russian)
усы

Español (Spanish)
n. - bigote

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mustasch(er)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
髭, 八字须

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 髭, 八字鬚

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 콧수염

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 口ひげ, 口ひげ状の毛

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شارب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שפם‬


 
 
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