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Moustache

//məˈstæʃ// noun, slang

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

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

  2. 2
    an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip wordnet
  3. 3
    A curly bracket, { or }. informal

    "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."

Etymology

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.

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