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The word "moustache" is French, and is derived from the Italian mustaccio (14th century), dialectal mostaccio (16th century), from Medieval Latin mustacchium (eighth century), Medieval Greek μουστάκιον (moustakion), attested in the ninth century, which ultimately originates as a diminutive of Hellenistic Greek μύσταξ (mustax, mustak-), meaning "upper lip" or "facial hair", [3 ...
A moustache similar to the Pyramid moustache but steeper, thus resembling a trapezoid. [4] Painter's brush An intermediate of chevron moustache and pyramid moustache, its top is round, but the bottom is straight. [4] Pencil moustache: A pencil moustache is a thin line of hair, usually just above the line of the upper lip.
The moustache forms its own stage in the development of facial hair in adolescent males. [7] Facial hair in males does not always appear in a specific order during puberty and varies but may follow this process. During puberty, the first facial hair to appear tends to grow at the corners of the upper lip (age 10–14).
A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy and upwardly curved extremities. These moustache styles are named for their resemblance to the handlebars of a bicycle . [ 1 ] It is also known as a spaghetti moustache , because of its stereotypical association with Italian men.
The Van Dyke beard is named after Anthony van Dyck.. A Van Dyke (sometimes spelled Vandyke, [1] or Van Dyck [2]) is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).
The toothbrush originally became popular in the late 19th century, in the United States. [1] It was a neat, uniform, low-maintenance moustache that echoed the standardization and uniformity brought on by industrialization, in contrast to the more flamboyant styles typical of the 19th century such as the imperial, walrus, handlebar, horseshoe, and pencil moustaches.
Junco: A goatee that extends upward and connects to the corners of the mouth but does not include a mustache, like the circle beard. Meg: A goatee that extends upward and connects to the mustache, this word is commonly used in the south east of Ireland. Van Dyke: a goatee accompanied by a mustache.
It is a portmanteau of the Australian-English diminutive word for moustache, "mo", [2] and "November". [3] The Movember Foundation runs the Movember charity event, housed at Movember.com. [ 4 ] The goal of Movember is to "change the face of men's health."