See also:

• MOUSTACHE, or MUSTACHIO

MOUSTACHE, or MUSTACHIO  , the See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair worn unshaven on the upper See also:

• LIP (a word common in various forms, to Teutonic languages, cf Ger. Lippe, Dan. laebe; Lat. labium is cognate)

lip (see See also:

• BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
• BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

BEARD) . The spelling " See also:

• MOUSTACHE, or MUSTACHIO

moustache," now the most See also:

• COMMON

common in See also:

• ENGLISH

English usage, is the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of Ital. mustachio, an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of a Doric dialectical d o ra , upper lip, also hair on the lip; this is generally taken to be a variant of µSee also:

• AURA (from the Gr. for " breath " or " breeze ")

aura , jaws, mouth, connected with µavavBae, to chew; cf . " See also:

• MASTIC, or MASTICH (Gr. µao-rixrt, probably connected with µaoavOai, to chew, since mastic is used in the East as a chewing gum)

mastic," chewing-See also:

• GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in

gum, and " masticate," to chew .