Noun: mouche
| Singular | mouche |
| Plural | mouches |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like mouche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French mouche. Doublet of Musca. See: French Nouns '
mouche'.