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Moustache vs Movember - What's the difference?

moustache | movember |

As a noun moustache

is a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

As a proper noun movember is

a charity event held during november each year where men grow moustaches to raise funds and awareness for men's health issues.

moustache

English

Alternative forms

* moustaches * mustache, mustaches

Noun

(en noun)
  • A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache .
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    • Usage notes

    The plural forms moustaches'' and ''mustaches were formerly popular equivalent terms for the facial hair on the lip of one man, but these uses are now archaic with the singular now preferred.

    Derived terms

    * Fu Manchu moustache * handlebar moustache * molestache * philtrum moustache * stache, 'stache * tache, 'tache * toothbrush moustache

    See also

    * beard * sideburn, sideboard * whisker ----

    movember

    English

    (wikipedia Movember)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A charity event held during November each year where men grow moustaches to raise funds and awareness for men's health issues.