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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.
- Movember
- Men grow them yearly to fund cancer research.
- Insurance perk
- 19th-century soldiers were paid extra to grow them.
- World record
- Longest measured over four meters of trained whisker.
- Style census
- Hundreds of named varieties exist, from handlebar to walrus.
- Royal mandate
- Some armies once made mustaches mandatory by regulation.
for instance
charlie chaplin's mustache — the iconic toothbrush mustache worn by the silent film star from 1914-1940s