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a strip of upper-lip ambition that turns ordinary faces into opinions.
means the strip of hair grown along a person's upper lip.
from From French 'moustache,' borrowed in the 1500s from Italian 'mostaccio,' which traces back through Medieval Latin to Greek 'mystax' — meaning the upper lip itself, or the hair growing on it. So the word has always lived right where the hair does, a label that climbed up from lip to legend.
MovemberMen grow them yearly to fund cancer research.
Insurance perk19th-century soldiers were paid extra to grow them.
World recordLongest measured over four meters of trained whisker.
Style censusHundreds of named varieties exist, from handlebar to walrus.
Royal mandateSome armies once made mustaches mandatory by regulation.