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moustache, mustache, n.|mʊˈstɑːʃ, -æ-, məs-|
Forms: 7 mostache, mustage, mustachis (Sc. pl.), 8 mustachus (pl.), 6– mustache, 6, 9– moustache.
[a. F. moustache fem., ad. It. mostaccio, mostacchio: see mustachio.
In present British use the unaltered Fr. spelling moustache greatly predominates, but the earlier British Dicts. (Johnson, Walker, Smart) and all the American Dicts. prefer the semi-Anglicized form mustache. With regard to the pronunciation, British usage is divided between |ʊ| and |ə| in the first syllable; in the U.S. |ə| appears to be general.]
1. The hair which grows upon the upper lip of men.
a. The hair on both sides of the upper lip taken to form a single moustache.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. iii. 73 b, [They] let their mustaches grow very long. Ibid. iv. xii. 125 [They] suffered no haire to grow, but only the moustaches betwixt the nose & the mouth. 1637Adamson Muses Threnodie (1774) 30 Their horrid beardes, thrown browes, brustled mustages. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 170 Those that have but a little Mustache, are of an ill nature. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton v. (1840) 84 They saw..men with beards, that is to say, mustaches. 1823Scott Peveril xxiv, Men wiped their mouths and mustaches. 1860C. A. Collins Eye-witness ii. 16 He was a little, middle-aged gentleman,..with..a dyed moustache.
b. The hair covering either side of the upper lip; one half of a ‘pair of moustaches’.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 541 The..Ephori.. cause proclamation to be published..that no man should weare mustaches, or nourish the haire on their upper lips. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 194 Two fair, And large, well-grown Mustaches. 1828tr. Manzoni's Betrothed Lovers I. i. 8 Two long mustaches were curled at the extremities. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Black Mousquetaire, And he twirl'd his moustache with so charming an air,—His moustaches I should say, because he'd a pair. 1902A. E. W. Mason Four Feathers xiv, He twirled first one moustache and then the other before he spoke again.
c. Applied to hair on the upper lip of a woman.
1893Sloane-Stanley Remin. Midshipm. Life xxx. 402 A woman with a black and bristly moustache.
2. a. Zool. Hairs or bristles, resembling a moustache, round the mouth of certain animals.
a1605Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (revision) iii, The con, the cuning, and the cat, Quhais dainty downs with dew were wat, With stiff mustachis strange. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea xxxi. 75 Seales..are beneficiall to man in their skinnes for many purposes; In their mostaches for Pick-tooths. 1677J. Phillips tr. Tavernier's Trav. I. iii. iv. 107 The Fish had a great Head, and a large Mustache. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 161 Mustaches [of the manatee] composed of a bundle of very strong hairs directed downwards, and forming on each side a kind of corneous tusk.
b. Ornith. A stripe of colour on the side of the head of a bird beneath the eye. (In recent Dicts.)
†3. A lock of hair worn at the temples. Obs.
1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 9 Children..so dress'd as that we could not distinguish the Boies from the Girles, for both had their hair cut all off, excepting only two mustaches, which were suffered to grow at their Temples.
4. Short for moustache monkey.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 498/1 The mustache, or cercopithecus cephus, has a beard on the cheeks. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Moustache (Zool.). 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Mustache.
5. old moustache [tr. F. vieille moustache]: an old soldier.
1828[Marq. Normanby] Engl. in France II. 67 These old moustaches are so modest, that they never allude to their exploits. 1859Longfellow Children's Hour viii, Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all!
6. attrib. and Comb.: moustache-cup, a cup with a partial cover to protect the moustache when drinking; moustache-lifter, a device for lifting one's moustache when drinking, sleeping, etc.; moustache monkey, a West African monkey, Cercopithecus cephus; moustache tern, Sterna (Viralva) leucopareia.
1886N. Zealand Herald 1 June 1/6 *Moustache Cups. 1906Macm. Mag. Apr. 407 It's the only moustache-cup we have.
1906Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan XXXIV. ii. 122 (caption) Ainu *moustache lifters. a1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 261 Before the war, in Germany I used to see advertised in the newspapers a moustache-lifter, which you tied on at night and it would make your moustache stay turned up. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 100/2 Moustache lifter, an implement shaped like a paper knife and used by the male hairy ainu of Japan when drinking, to lift his moustache away from the liquid.
1771Pennant Syn. Quadrup. 114. [*Mustache monkey]. 1840tr. Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 57 The Moustache Monkey (Simia cephus, Lin.). 1871Darwin Desc. Man ii. xviii. (1890) 552 The moustache-monkey.
1837Gould Birds Europe V. pl. 424 *Moustache Tern.
Hence mouˈstacheless a., having no moustache.
1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 210 With a rather triumphant smile on his handsome moustacheless lips.
▸ fig. A residue, stain, or deposit (esp. of food or drink) on the upper lip, resembling a moustache. Cf. milk moustache n. at milk n.1 and adj. Compounds 3a.
1872W. Collins Poor Miss Finch I. x. 115 The child..looked at me with a white moustache of milk on her upper lip. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 72 When that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip. 1949H. Wilcox Six Moons in Sulawesi vii. 166 As usual, his nose needs wiping, and to-day there is a crimson moustache above his lips from eating a bunch of sadipeh berries. 1987B. MacLaverty Great Profundo (1989) 20 The old man took a drink from his glass and wiped away the slight moustache it left with the back of his hand. 2002Blush! Nov. (All About Me suppl.) 14/2 Your pals can turn to you when they've got smudged lippy or milkshake moustaches. |