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noun, feminine

mouche

/muʃ/

noun, feminine/muʃ/plural: mouches

fly (insect); bullseye (center of a target); (espionage) a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas; bee; soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip)

Synonyms: mouche à miel

Inherited from Middle French mousche, from Old French mousche, musche, from Latin musca, from Proto-Indo-European *mus- (“a fly”).

mouche — French Dictionary | Passage