Handle-bars (Noun)
Meaning
A large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth).
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- His impressively groomed handle-bars made him stand out as the best dressed at the Victorian-themed ball.
- He stroked his majestic handle-bars thoughtfully, as he pondered his next chess move.
- Handle-bars framing his jovial smile made the otherwise formal ambassador hard to take seriously.
- To get the handle-bars right took as much attention and wax as getting his beard properly coiffed.
- Her elderly father with perfectly curved handle-bars remained one of the neighbourhood's favourite, idiosyncratic fixtures.