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”).