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Webster 1913 Edition
Mustache
Mus-tache′
(mŭs-tȧsh′; 277)
, Noun.
pl.
Mustaches
. [Written also
moustache
.] [F.
moustache
, It. mostaccio
visage, mostacchio
mustache, fr. Gr. μύσταξ
upper lip and the beard upon it; cf. μάσταξ
mouth: cf. Sp. mostacho
.] 1.
That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
2.
(Zool.)
A West African monkey (
Cercopithecus cephus
). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose. 3.
(Zool.)
Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.