Beauty mark
A small dark mole on the face, especially near the lips or cheekbones; also a painted or patched imitation.
Also: beauty spot, mole
A beauty mark is a natural mole that sits somewhere noticeable, often above the lip or on the cheek. In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, fashionable men and women stuck on small black silk patches, called mouches in French, and the place they were worn was said to carry a message. Painted beauty marks returned with film stars in the twentieth century. Any change in a mole is something to show a doctor.