musátache also mousátache (mstsh, m-stsh) \Mus*tache"\ (m[u^]s*t[.a]sh"; 277), n.; pl. Mustaches. [Written also moustache.]n.

1. The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.
2. Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as:
a. A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.
b. Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.
c. Food or drink sticking conspicuously to the upper lip: wiped the milk mustache from my face.


[French moustache, from Italian dialectal mustaccio, from Medieval Greek moustakion, from Greek mustax, mustache, upper lip.]

• As early as 2650 BC, however, Egyptian artifacts show a pencil-line moustache with no beard.
• Alabama law: "It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church."
• Eureka, Illinois law: A man with a moustache may not kiss a woman.
• "John has a long mustache" was the code-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.

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