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A mini privacy fence for the upper lip, worn as a personality.
means The strip of hair grown or groomed above the upper lip, distinct from a full beard.
from Comes from French moustache, borrowed from Italian mostaccio, tracing back to Greek mystax (upper lip, or the hair on it) — a word some link to myllon, 'to close the lips,' though that connection stays speculative. The Greek term spread through the Mediterranean and eventually anglicized into the mustache/moustache spelling split we still argue about today.
- origin
- from greek mystax, meaning upper lip
- movember
- grown globally each november for charity
- guinness record
- longest moustache measured over 14 feet
- pogonophobia
- fear of facial hair is a real diagnosis