moustache

CEFRB1

/məˈstɑːʃ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Hair growing above a man's upper lip.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A curly bracket, { or }.

Examples

  • "Hrmm," mumbled Professor Takeda as he twisted his moustache.

  • His fake moustache started to peel off on one side.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /məˈstaːʃ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

More examples

In context

  • A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.

  • The Stan Lee fly, or Daptolestes leei, which is said to share his characteristic sunglasses and white moustache

  • In this example, the first is a string of text that contains the name property in double curly brackets (or “mustaches”)—this is the syntax for a tag.

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He grew a thick blank above his upper lip to look older.

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Origin

noun

Used in English since the 16th century. From Middle French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from Early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a Pre-Greek substrate). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.