- The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.
- Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as:
- A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.
- Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.
- 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.
