mouche
mouche noun: a soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
Noun
mouche (plural mouches)
- A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
- They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252
- The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9
- Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.
Examples of mouche in a sentence
- In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 203:
- LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip.2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN:
Forms of mouche
| plural | mouches |
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Origin of mouche
From French mouche. Doublet of Musca.
Questions about mouche
- What does mouche mean?
- Mouche means a soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
- How do you use mouche in a sentence?
- In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.
- What part of speech is mouche?
- Mouche is a noun.
- What is the plural of mouche?
- The plural of mouche is mouches.
Words near mouche in the dictionary
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