mustache

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also mous·tache (mŭs'tăsh', mə-stăsh') pronunciation
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.


(with stress on the second syllable) is the normal spelling in British English, but mustache (with stress on the first syllable) is more usual in American English.

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sign description: Both G-hands trace the outline of a mustache on the upper lip.




Small retractable foreplanes. These normally operate only beyond the stalling angle of attacks and thus permit aircraft to maneuver at very high angles of attack.

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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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