English

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of moustache or mustache.

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Noun

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tache (plural taches)

  1. (informal) Moustache, mustache.
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Etymology 2

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From French tache (a spot). See tetchy.

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tache (plural taches)

  1. (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.

Etymology 3

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See tack (a kind of nail).

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tache (plural taches)

  1. Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
    • 1611, King James Bible, “xxvi.vi”, in Exodus[1], Barker edition:
      And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold, and couple the curtaines together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French tache, from Old French tache, taiche, taje (mark, spot, stain), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, mark, sign), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikną (sign, mark), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (to show). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkijan (to stick, attach) and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃 (staks, mark). See attacher. For levelling and shortening of diphthong ai in taikns compare Old French hanter, hangart, etc. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (sign, symbol, feature), Old English tācn (sign, marker). More at token.

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tache f (plural taches)

  1. blot, stain or smear
  2. spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color
  3. (skin) blotch, mark
  4. moral depravation
  5. annoying or despicable person

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French attacher (attach).

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tache

  1. attach

Old French

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Uncertain. Two origins are proposed:

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tache oblique singularf (oblique plural taches, nominative singular tache, nominative plural taches)

  1. mark; stain

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tache)

Portuguese

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Verb

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tache

  1. inflection of tachar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtat͡ʃe/ [ˈt̪a.t͡ʃe]
  • Rhymes: -atʃe
  • Syllabification: ta‧che

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from tachar.

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tache m (plural taches)

  1. (Mexico) a line or lines written to cross out something

Etymology 2

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Verb

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tache

  1. inflection of tachar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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