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moustache Definition

mous·tache (mustas̸h′, məs tas̸h)

noun

mustache

moustache Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • droop: His face was clean, excepting his drooping blond mustache.
  • bristle: It was an outstanding and bristling military mustache; and it looked suspiciously like a false mustache.
  • wax: Who can forget the little gray cells stirring inside the egg shaped head of the Belgian gentleman with a waxed mustache?
  • trim: But of course, there are significant differences between trimming a mustache at twenty-thousand feet, and shaving a whole planet.
  • wear: It is illegal to wear a false mustache that causes laughter in church.
  • grow: Clearly, growing a mustache makes your hair fall out.

Adjective modifier

  • bushy: He had a bushy, white mustache and a florid face.
  • fake: Everyone knows dressing up is great fun, a floppy hat here and a fake mustache there!
  • dodgy: The man with the camp gait and dodgy mustache ( currently shaved ).
  • false: You can disguise them whilst out by sticking a false mustache across the pad.
  • thick: Stop him clogging up the cemetery with the rest of themâ Le Goff smoothed his thick black mustache.
  • thin: Sherman is a big man, pencil thin mustache, high-waisted trousers, shiny silver tipped cowboy boots.

Modifies a noun

  • wax: The Company were making money and the product was the best that it had been since mustache wax and spats were in fashion.
  • cup: The cabinet between the windows houses gentlemen's mustache cups and a much mended but unusual tuned stone plate.

Noun used with modifier

  • walrus: JM Barrie was a big guy with a walrus mustache.
  • handlebar: He had even stuck a false handlebar mustache on.
  • pencil: Nevio is small and immaculately turned out in shirt, tie and zippered pullover and matinee idol pencil mustache.
  • trademark: It was eventually made into a TV series -- with John Alderton, complete with Hunter's trademark mustache.
  • toothbrush: He grew a little toothbrush mustache, which was very fashionable then.
  • ginger: Take for example Niki, who laughed heartily at my ginger mustache.
moustache Quotes

Roderick Spode? Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces?

—Plum

Dewey has no inner reserve of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking. A man couldn't wear a moustache like that without having it affect his mind.

—Hoover, Herbert Clark

Being kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache wasölike eating an egg without salt.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

[It is] drawing a moustache on a madonna.

—Venturi, Robert Charles

If Joan of Arc had been born in Austria and worn a moustache, she might have conveyed much the same impression.

—1st Viscount