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Definition of Moustaches
1. moustache [n] - See also: moustache
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moustaches
Literary usage of Moustaches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"... that they should wear neither beard nor whiskers nor moustaches, upon pain of
public penance. This was peremptory, and the English priests gave in. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"It was at one time the custom for the whole of the men in smart cavalry regiments
to dye their moustaches, &c., black, to barle or suppress their natural ..."
3. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1896)
"... and moustaches ; A.UO sold In a GOLDEN COLOUR for Fair Hair. SOLD EVERYWHERE.
Can be sent post free by A. ROWLAND 4 SOXS, 20 Hatton Harden, London, ..."
4. When we were boys: A Novel by William O'Brien (1890)
"CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH LES JEUNES moustaches BY the superhuman exertions of old Dr.
Harbottle (or otherwise), Ken Rohan's fever departed in due season, and, ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"Gallant captains wear moustaches — therefore some praise them. Swindlers «•car
moustaches to pass for pallant captains: musical pro- ..."
6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"... that they should wear neither beard nor whiskers nor moustaches, upon pain of
public penance. This was peremptory, and the English priests gave in. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"It was at one time the custom for the whole of the men in smart cavalry regiments
to dye their moustaches, &c., black, to barle or suppress their natural ..."
8. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1896)
"... and moustaches ; A.UO sold In a GOLDEN COLOUR for Fair Hair. SOLD EVERYWHERE.
Can be sent post free by A. ROWLAND 4 SOXS, 20 Hatton Harden, London, ..."
9. When we were boys: A Novel by William O'Brien (1890)
"CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH LES JEUNES moustaches BY the superhuman exertions of old Dr.
Harbottle (or otherwise), Ken Rohan's fever departed in due season, and, ..."
10. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"Gallant captains wear moustaches — therefore some praise them. Swindlers «•car
moustaches to pass for pallant captains: musical pro- ..."
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