mouche
Noun

mouche (plural mouches)

  1. A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
    • 1908, Everybody's Magazine, page 252:
      They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.
    • 2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan (ISBN 9781403971340), page 203:
      In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.
    • 2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc. (ISBN 9781627871013)
      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.



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