mustache

mus-tache · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A strip of hair left to grow above the upper lip.

Forms

plural: mustaches

Phrases & expressions

  • handlebar mustache — a mustache with long curved ends
  • pencil mustache — a thin, narrow mustache

Related words

Synonyms: moustache

Etymology

From French moustache, from Italian mostaccio, from Medieval Greek moustakion, diminutive of Greek mystax ("upper lip, mustache").