Mouche
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Mouche may refer to:
  • Mouche de moutarde, a cataplasm to treat respiratory infections in Eastern Canada
  • Mouches volantes, a minor form of visual impairment
  • Bateaux Mouches
    Bateaux Mouches
    Bateaux Mouches are open excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris, France, with a view of the city from along the river Seine....

    , a type of boat
  • a small patch of hair just below the lower lip, derived from the English meaning of the word "fly", see facial hair
    Facial hair
    Facial hair is a secondary sex characteristic of human males. Men often start developing facial hair in the later years of puberty or adolescence, approximately between 17–20 years of age, and most do not finish developing a fully adult beard until their early 20s or even later...

    , soul patch
    Soul patch
    The soul patch is a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin. It came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was a style of facial hair common among African American men, most notably jazzmen. It became popular with beatniks, artists, and those who frequented...

  • an artificial facial mole
    Melanocytic nevus
    A melanocytic nevus is a type of lesion that contains nevus cells .Some sources equate the term mole with "melanocytic nevus". Other sources reserve the term "mole" for other purposes....

     worn on the face for fashion around 1800 in Europe

Fiction

  • La Mouche (novel), a novel by George Langelaan
    George Langelaan
    George Langelaan was a British writer and journalist born in Paris, France. He is best known for his 1957 short story "The Fly", which was the basis for the 1958 and 1986 sci-fi film horror classics and a 2008 opera composed by Howard Shore.-Career:During World War II, Langelaan worked as a spy...

  • in the 1943 film Five Graves to Cairo
    Five Graves to Cairo
    Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. It is one of a number of films based on Lajos Biró's play Színmü négy felvonásban, including Hotel Imperial .-Plot:...

    , the character played by Anne Baxter
  • a character in the novel The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
    Alejo Carpentier
    Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba; and despite his European birthplace, Carpentier strongly self-identified...

  • The Flies
    The Flies
    The Flies is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides....

    (French: Les Mouches), a play by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre

Music

  • "La Mouche", a single by the band Cassius
    Cassius (band)
    Cassius is a French house music duo, consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.-History:...

  • Sandy Mouche
    Sandy Mouche
    Sandy Mouche is a Swedish band from Lund, Skåne County, southern Sweden. It consists of songwriter- and singer couple Martinique and Helena Josefsson, and the brothers Per and Ola Blomgren. On live shows they bring a bassist and a pianist. They sing in English and French.-Sandy Mouche was born...

    , a Swedish band
  • "Duo de la Mouche", duet from the opera Orphée aux Enfers by Jacques Offenbach

Places

  • La Mouche, Manche
    La Mouche, Manche
    La Mouche is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.-Heraldry:...

    , a commune in France
  • La Mouche, Lyon, former name of Gerland, a quarter of Lyon, France
  • Anse la Mouche, a tourist spot on Mahé, Seychelles
    Mahé, Seychelles
    Mahé is the largest island of the Seychelles, lying in the north east of the nation. The population of Mahé is 80,000. It contains the capital city of Victoria and accommodates 90% of the country's total population...

    in the Seychelles islands
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