moustached

moustached

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Etymology

    From moustache + -ed.

    Pronunciation

    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmʌstæʃt/
    • (UK) IPA(key): /məˈstɑːʃt/

    Adjective

    moustached (not comparable)

    1. Having a moustache.
      British military officers are usually moustached.
      • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
        [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.
      • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
        One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!

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