Moustache or moustaches?

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AndyM
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Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:30 pm

A friend of mine is writing an historical novel and wishes to describe a man with a large handle bar moustache, should this be a fine moustache or fine moustaches? I am sure I have heard the plural used for walrus or handle bar styles but a web search has not confirmed this. Does anyone know the history of this term?
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Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:08 pm

Here's a relevant quote from Dickens, from All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal (1859) p. 448:
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Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:34 pm

Thank you Couch! I was sure I had heard the expression a pair of moustaches, now I have proof!
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