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mustache

mustache is the US standard spelling 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

Forms of mustache

pluralmustaches

Words formed from mustache

Phrases with mustache

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Questions about mustache

What is mustache the US standard spelling of?
Mustache is the US standard spelling of moustache.

Words near mustache in the dictionary

  1. must-tries
  2. must-try
  3. must-win
  4. must-wins
  5. musta
  6. mustache
  7. mustache cup
  8. mustache cups
  9. Mustache Pete
  10. Mustache Petes
  11. mustache ride

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mustache (page history and authors); moustache (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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