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Moustache
Facial hair grown above the upper lip / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the type of facial hair. For other uses, see Moustache (disambiguation).
A moustache (UK: /məˈstɑːʃ/; American English: mustache, /ˈmʌstæʃ/)[1] is a growth of facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the nose. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history.[2]
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Panayot Hitov, Bulgarian revolutionary
A moustachioed horseman on a c. 300 BC artwork found in Pazyryk burials
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia