cavalry moustache

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Noun

cavalry moustache (plural cavalry moustaches)

  1. A fairly long, full moustache, often either drooping or waxed to a point at either end.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XIII, p. 208,
      Now his dark-brown hair was greying and falling out, and his ginger cavalry moustache, so proud and fierce a creature in days gone by, looked as though the rats had been at it […]
    • 1975, "Big Changes and a New Self-Confidence," Time, 9 June, 1975,
      By now the well-groomed cavalry mustache, gleaming dome and heavily lidded eyes have become familiar sights in every Arab land. But except for an occasional trip to Moscow or some other Soviet-bloc capital in quest of arms and aid, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat has rarely ventured beyond the Middle East.
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