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MUSTACHE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

Example:

he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache

Synonyms:

moustache; mustache

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("mustache" is a kind of...):

facial hair (hair on the face (especially on the face of a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mustache"):

soup-strainer; toothbrush (slang for a mustache)

handle-bars; moustachio; mustachio (a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth))

walrus moustache; walrus mustache (a bushy droopy mustache)

Holonyms ("mustache" is a part of...):

beard; face fungus; whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)

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 Context examples: 

I really feel like a dissipated London fine lady, writing here so late, with my room full of pretty things, and my head a jumble of parks, theaters, new gowns, and gallant creatures who say Ah! and twirl their blond mustaches with the true English lordliness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Between mouthfuls he talked trail and dogs with the man, who, with head over the stove, was thawing the ice from his mustache.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)