A moustache is a growth of facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the nose. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history.
A moustachioed horseman on a c. 300 BC artwork found in Pazyryk burials
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia
Count Gaishi Nagaoka, Japanese officer and Vice Chief of the General Staff in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War.
Stone sculpture of a Gaul wearing a torc, with curled moustache and eyebrows, c. 400 AD
Facial hair is hair grown on the face, usually on the chin, cheeks, and upper lip region. It is typically a secondary sex characteristic of human males. Men typically start developing facial hair in the later stages of puberty or adolescence, around fifteen years of age, and most do not finish developing a full adult beard until around eighteen or later. However, large variations can occur; boys as young as eleven have also been known to develop facial hair, and some men do not produce much facial hair at all.
A man with a full beard
Abraham Lincoln is said to have grown his beard on the recommendation of the eleven-year-old Grace Bedell.