Moustache

This article is about the type of facial hair. For other uses, see Moustache (disambiguation).

Panayot Hitov, Bulgarian revolutionary
A moustachioed horseman on a c. 300 BC artwork found in Pazyryk burials
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia

A moustache (UK: /məˈstɑːʃ/; mustache, US: /ˈmʌstæʃ/)[1] is a growth of facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the nose. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history.[2]

Count Gaishi Nagaoka, Japanese officer and Vice Chief of the General Staff in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War.
  1. ^ moustache is almost universal in British English while mustache is common in American English, although the third edition of Webster (1961), which gives moustache as the principal headword spelling. Later editions of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (from the 1973 eighth edition) give mustache.
  2. ^ Twickler, Sharon (2018). "Masculinity and the Moustache – Combing Masculine Identity in the Age of the Moustache, 1860–1900". In Evans, Jennifer; Withey, Alun (eds.). New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair: Framing the Face. Genders and Sexualities in History. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 149–168. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73497-2_8. ISBN 978-3-319-73497-2.