moustached

adj

moustached

adj

US /ˈmʌstæʃt/ · UK /məˈstɑːʃt/

Etymology From moustache + -ed.

1

Having a moustache.

  • British military officers are usually moustached.
  • [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.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
1 more example
  • 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!1958 February 23, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
Synonyms
bemoustached, mustachioed
Derived terms
moustached kingfisher, moustached warbler, unmoustached

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