Definitions

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  • noun a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)

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Examples

  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Joe was halfway down to the saloon when Martin passed by, bending low over the handle-bars, his legs driving the ninety - six gear with rhythmic strength, his face set for seventy miles of road and grade and dust.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • I am leaning forward, arms out wide on the low-lying handle-bars, legs pushed back.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • I am leaning forward, arms out wide on the low-lying handle-bars, legs pushed back.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

    vélo - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • I am leaning forward, arms out wide on the low-lying handle-bars, legs pushed back.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • I recognize the bright turquoise vélo* with the caramel leather seat and wide longhorn handle-bars.

    vélo - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • If this be so, let there be a national law passed restoring the use of the musical little tinkling alarm bells, that shall put away forever from handle-bars, at least, the raucous and nerve-racking honk of the motor horn.

    Curation Myths: Some Assembly Required BikeSnobNYC 2009

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