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English Dictionary: moustache by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
moustache
n
  1. an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache"
    Synonym(s): mustache, moustache
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moustache \Mous`tache"\, n. [F.]
      Mustache.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mustache \Mus*tache"\ (m[ucr]s*t[adot]sh"; 277), n.; pl.
      {Mustaches}. [Written also {moustache}.] [F. moustache, It.
      mostaccio visage, mostacchio mustache, fr. Gr. my`stax upper
      lip and the beard upon it; cf. ma`stax mouth: cf. Sp.
      mostacho.]
      1. That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair
            left growing above the mouth.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A West African monkey ({Cercopithecus cephus}).
            It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the
            nose.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of
            the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
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