Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mouche

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English

Syllables: mouche
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.

noun

Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.

Example Sentences

"They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract."
"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."
"In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs."
"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."

Etymology

From French mouche. Doublet of Musca.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: mouche

Inflected Forms

mouches (plural)

Questions

What does mouche mean?: A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
Where does mouche come from?: It is traced to French.

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