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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mustache  \Mus*tache"\  (m[u^]s*t[.a]sh";  277),  n.;  pl 
  {Mustaches}.  [Written  also  {moustache}.]  [F.  moustache,  It 
  mostaccio  visage,  mostacchio  mustache,  fr  Gr  my`stax  upper 
  lip  and  the  beard  upon  it  cf  ma`stax  mouth:  cf  Sp 
  mostacho.] 
  1.  That  part  of  the  beard  which  grows  on  the  upper  lip;  hair 
  left  growing  above  the  mouth. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  West  African  monkey  ({Cercopithecus  cephus}). 
  It  has  yellow  whiskers,  and  a  triangular  blue  mark  on  the 
  nose. 
 
  3.  (Zo["o]l.)  Any  conspicuous  stripe  of  color  on  the  side  of 
  the  head,  beneath  the  eye  of  a  bird. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mustache 
  n  :  an  unshaved  growth  of  hair  on  the  upper  lip;  "he  looked 
  younger  after  he  shaved  off  his  mustache"  [syn:  {moustache}] 




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