Synonyms:
mustache, moustache
Meaning: an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache"
Usage examples
He was lying on the sofa, eating his moustache and wondering what the darkness of the night would be like.
A fine old soldier in spotless uniform, with waxed white moustache and dangling sword, conducts the visitors.
Major Flint in his eagerness had put most of his moustache into the life-giving tumbler, and dried it on his handkerchief.
He bit the ends of his moustache, and his eyes glared at the impalpable thwarting force that to imagination seemed to fill the air about him.
The driver, a little man with a grey moustache, Dorothy remembered to have seen him several times "crawling" about on the look-out for fares.
In this same building the ex-kaiser is represented as a crusader by a figure and the Psalmist is painted with the moustache of a German general.
He was a chubby little man of forty, with coarse black hair and scrubby moustache, not of the type that readily appreciates the delicacies of a situation.
He sat within a small circle of brilliant light which gleamed upon his silver shoulder-straps, and threw out his terra-cotta face, his heavy eyebrows, and his yellow moustache.
Lieutenant Sandridge turned a beautiful /couleur de rose/ through his ordinary strawberry complexion, tucked the letter in his hip pocket, and chewed off the ends of his gamboge moustache.
In the dark, gloomy corridor, stripped of its tapestries, a few old attendants were lounging about, and in front of Kerensky's door a young officer paced up and down, gnawing his moustache.