Moustache
[mə'stɑːʃ] or [mə'stɑʃ]
Definition
(n.) Mustache.
Typed by Jed
Definition
n. the hair upon the upper lip of men: a soldier—also Mustach′io.—n. Moustache′-cup a cup for drinking tea &c. having the top partly covered to keep the moustache from being wet.—adjs. Moustached′ Mustach′ioed.
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Examples
- He laughed at Mistress Affery's start and cry; and as he laughed, his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The lady's complexion was almost swarthy, and the dark down on her upper lip was almost a moustache. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The hand was smoothing his shaggy moustache. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The other gentleman with him, in the red under-waistcoat and dark moustache, is the Honourable Mr. Crushton, his bosom friend. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He runs to a moustache, the Comrade Voyager. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had a quantity of hair and moustache--jet black, except at the shaggy ends, where it had a tinge of red--and a high hook nose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Even the keen, short-cut moustache--the colliers would not have that. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As it met his, the nose came down over the moustache and the moustache went up under the nose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was a middle-sized, strongly built man--square jaw, thick neck, moustache, a mask over his eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They called us Mounseers, German moustache rascals, and Frenchmen. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He stood still, dragging at his moustache with a lean weak hand. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yes: lively reading that was, said Mr. Ned Van Alstyne, stroking his moustache to hide the smile behind it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He was a sturdy fellow with flattish cheek-bones, rather pale, and with coarse fair moustache. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache, in a very sinister and cruel manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Les moustaches, gasped Joe; les moustaches--coupy, rasy, vite! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was a Tyrolese, broad, rather flat-cheeked, with a pale, pock-marked skin and flourishing moustaches. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Segre