mouche

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See also: mouché

English

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Etymology

From French mouche. Doublet of Musca.

Noun

mouche (plural mouches)

  1. A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
    • 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
      They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.
    • 1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9:
      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.
    • 2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 203:
      In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.
    • 2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN:
      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.
  2. Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.

French

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mousche, from Old French mousche, musche, from Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muʃ/
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Noun

mouche f (plural mouches)

  1. fly (insect)
  2. bullseye (center of a target)
  3. (historical) (espionage) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas
  4. (Louisiana) bee
    Synonym: mouche à miel
  5. soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: mouche
  • → Portuguese: muche
  • → Swedish: musch
  • → Turkish: muş

Verb

mouche

  1. inflection of moucher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

mouche f (plural mouches)

  1. Alternative spelling of muche

Swedish

Noun

mouche c

  1. Alternative spelling of musch.
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