noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grow a beard/moustache
handlebar moustache
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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A darkly florid officer with black moustache walked briskly through the debris, gazing round as though looking for some one.
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He had a small black moustache which was neatly trimmed.
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He had grey hair and a black moustache which rose and fell as he breathed.
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He was tall and slim with a black pencil moustache .
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He burrowed down in his seat again, wishing he had a black moustache and a false nose.
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He sucked one corner of his black moustache absently.
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The man had a black moustache .
grey
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He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
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Alfred munches a pie and dusts the crumbs from his grey moustache over the racing-page.
thin
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He was shortish and wiry, had a straight thin moustache and I guessed he was anywhere between 40 and 45.
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He displayed a kind of weak handsomeness, sporting long sideburns and a thin moustache above a sloping mouth.
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He had a thin moustache and was wearing a baggy grey suit.
■ NOUN
handlebar
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He had a prominent handlebar moustache and a high colour to his cheeks.
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He had no hair and a handlebar moustache that his face made look a foot long on each side.
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Put on those flying goggles, tweak that handlebar moustache and blow the enemy to hell!
■ VERB
grow
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School monitors are distinguished in many ways, the most obvious being the vermilion gown; they may also grow a moustache .
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The hair was already thinning and perhaps to compensate he had grown a luxuriant Groucho moustache which almost hid his mouth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A tall, bespectacled figure, his face half concealed by a luxuriant walrus moustache , Perky had enjoyed an extraordinary career.
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Beads of sweat were catching in her bleached moustache .
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Fair-haired with a luxuriant drooping moustache .
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He had a moustache , short dark hair, and he wore glasses.
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He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
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He now had a young man's moustache and beard.
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There was the younger Manolo, plus an older man with the same teeth, hair and moustache .