mustache, moustache (mustash)

[Also mustachio, and formerly must a cho, most a cho, and in various perverted forms, muschacho, mut cha to, etc., after Sp. or It.; This was the auncient manner of Spaynyardes... to cutt of all theyr beardes close, save only theyr muschachoes , which they weare long. Spenser, State of Ireland (Globe ed.), p. 635. Will you have your mustachoes sharpe at the ends, like Byron, Beppo, st. 77. shoemakers aules; or hanging downe to your mouth like Lyly, Midas, iii. 2. IMG:content-1135.png:[blocks in formation] Scammon .