museau

English

Etymology

From French museau. Doublet of muzzle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjuːˈzəʊ/

Noun

museau

1. (chiefly literary) Someone's face.
   • 1922, DH Lawrence, ‘The Horse-dealer's Daughter’, England, My England:

     He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 33:

     I was dark with a round museau of a face and thick lips and a pug nose and high cheekbones and deep-set brown eyes and a bush of black hair.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French musel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.zo/

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Noun

museau m (plural museaux)

1. snout, muzzle (long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast)
2. (colloquial) face

Further reading

• “museau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.