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The word "moustache" is French, and is derived from the Italian mustaccio (14th century), dialectal mostaccio (16th century), from Medieval Latin mustacchium (eighth century), Medieval Greek μουστάκιον (moustakion), attested in the ninth century, which ultimately originates as a diminutive of Hellenistic Greek μύσταξ (mustax, mustak-), meaning "upper lip" or "facial hair", [3 ...
The toothbrush originally became popular in the late 19th century, in the United States. [1] It was a neat, uniform, low-maintenance moustache that echoed the standardization and uniformity brought on by industrialization, in contrast to the more flamboyant styles typical of the 19th century such as the imperial, walrus, handlebar, horseshoe, and pencil moustaches.
A beard with the length of more than 20 cm. A Ned Kelly beard is a style of facial hair named after 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly. [30] Verdi beard A short beard where the moustache is disconnected from rest of the facial hair. Named after Giuseppe Verdi. [31]
A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy and ... handlebar moustaches were often worn by soldiers during the 19th century until roughly the era ...
In Poland, the moustache became a symbol of nobility and traditionalism. From the 16th to the 20th century it was a symbol of Polish patriotism and sarmatism. Notable bearers at the time were King John III Sobieski in the 17th century, Langiewicz in the 19th century and Piłsudski in the 20th century.
Sviatoslav had a distinctive moustache and hairstyle (oseledets or chupryna) that almost every Ukrainian cossack had centuries after his time (although Svyatoslav had lived in the 10th century, whereas Cossacks appear on the historical scene only in the 15th century). The length of the cossack moustache was important – the longer the better.
3 lighthouse workers with impeccable mustaches traveled to a remote island on December 7th, 1900 for a lighthouse shift that should have lasted for two weeks. When a boat arrived to pick them up ...
The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption of the original burnsides, named after American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, [2] a man known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven.