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Mustaches vs Moustache - What's the difference?

mustaches | moustache |

Moustache is a alternative form of mustaches.



As nouns the difference between mustaches and moustache

is that mustaches is plural of mustache while moustache is a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

mustaches

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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 ----