mustache
noun
(ˌ)mə-ˈstash
Henry Petroski 
Examples of mustache in a Sentence
Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
As always, before Spaghetti & Meatballs could unmask from that giant pasta mustache of a head, the judges had to give their final guesses.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
An image from surveillance video shows a suspect, a 45-50 year old black male, with a gray mustache and beard.
—Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
Another video shows Aguilar in the crowd in front of the same stage, alongside her partner, who has a mustache and goatee and wears a black hooded sweatshirt with a white logo for the Freedom Angels.
—USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
His face framed by an adjoining walrus mustache and bushy goatee, brown hair falling to his shoulders, Barnett won his family’s adoration for his boisterous, infectious laugh, and kid-like sense of fun.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
The suspect is described by authorities as Black, between 5 feet 8 and 5 feet 11 inches tall, with an average build and a mustache.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
But John Wilkes was the most beautiful of the Booths, the handsomest man in all America, it was said: lithe and feline, with dark Fauntleroy curls and a leading-man mustache.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
That’s especially true of Booth, through no fault of Boyle’s, who as written possesses less depth than his flamboyantly villainous mustache.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle French moustache, from Old Italian mustaccio, from Middle Greek moustaki, diminutive of Greek mystak-, mystax upper lip, mustache
1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Mustache.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mustache. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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