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moustaches

moustaches is the plural of moustache.

Meaning of moustache

Noun

moustache (plural moustaches)

  1. A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
    • A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the Brigadier Triumphed in England”, in The Adventures of Gerard
  2. (informal) A curly bracket, { or }.
    • In this example, the first is a string of text that contains the name property in double curly brackets (or “mustaches”)—this is the syntax for a tag.2013, Peter Gasston, The Modern Web: Multi-device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 102

Phrases with moustaches

Questions about moustaches

What is moustaches the plural of?
Moustaches is the plural of moustache.

Words near moustaches in the dictionary

  1. moustached warbler
  2. moustached warblers
  3. moustacheless
  4. moustachelessness
  5. moustachelike
  6. moustaches
  7. moustachey
  8. moustachial
  9. moustachio
  10. moustachio'd
  11. moustachioed

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