french chad

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Monday, December 4, 2000 7:12 am -0800 James Smith
<jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> "Les moustaches" always puzzled me...what is a
> moustache, a single whisker on the upper lip?

I always understood this as the two sides of the mustache (on either side
of the philtrum) which are combed in opposite directions (think Dali).

Lynne



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