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mustache

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That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.

A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.

Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. G. K. Chesterton

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did. Neil Tennant

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody. Yasmine Bleeth

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul. Confucius

It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache. Cassandra Clare

He'd grown a mustache since Randall had last seen him. It was hard to understand why: He looked devious enough without it. Jack McDevitt

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