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mouche en · NOUN

Etymology

From French mouche. Doublet of Musca.

Meanings

1. A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
   • The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals. 1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9:
   • LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip. His brown hair is shoulder length. Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance. 2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN:
   • In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs. 2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 203:
   • They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract. 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
2. Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.

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