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mustaches |
1 definition 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.
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