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Moustache

A moustache, also spelled mustache, is an outgrowth of hair on the upper lip. It is a form of facial hair which commonly grows on men after puberty. Mustaches may be combined with beards.

A thin moustache with curved ends was formerly used in melodramas, movies and comic books as a shorthand indication of villainy. Snidely Whiplash, for example, was characterized by his mustache as well as his cape and his habits of kidnapping women and tying them to train tracks, and of foreclosing on widows' mortgages.

Famous Moustache wearers

Famous people particularly known for having distinctive moustaches have included:

• Charlie Chaplin
• Georges Clemenceau
• Salvador Dalí, whose moustache was influenced by that of Diego Velázquez
• Rollie Fingers
• Clark Gable
• Adolf Hitler
• Saddam Hussein
• Horatio Kitchener
• David Lloyd George
• Groucho Marx - for many years wore a fake moustache of greasepaint on stage and film, then grew a real one later in life
• Wilhelm II of Germany

Types of Moustache

• Fu manchu (Similar to Salvador Dali)
• Handlebar moustache

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