blouse

Definition of blouse in English English dictionary: An outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt and reaches from the neck to the waist or below. Nowadays, in colloquial use, blouse refers almost always to a woman's shirt that buttons down the front; To hang a garment in loose folds; A loose-fitting uniform jacket; To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots)
An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, If I fail to blouse my boots, or wear an Afro, I get socked. .; {i} shirt; an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt and reaches from the neck to the waist or below. Nowadays, in colloquial use, blouse refers almost always to a womans shirt that buttons down the front; {f} puff out, droop, hang loosely; A blouse is a kind of shirt worn by a girl or woman. a shirt for women; A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army; a top worn by women
big girl's blouse: An effeminate or weak man, a sissy
blousy: Resembling or characteristic of a blouse
peasant blouse: A woman's blouse, based on traditional European peasant dress, with puffed sleeves and square neckline
shirtwaist blouse: a shirtwaist
A blouse: smock
blouses: plural of blouse
knitted blouse: blouse made by looping yarn together
middy blouse: A woman's or child's loose blouse with a sailor collar
silk blouse: delicate shirt that is made out of silk cloth

blouse

Turkish pronunciation

blaus

Synonyms

bodice, bodysuit, middy, pullover, shell, slipover, t-shirt, turtleneck, v-neck

Antonyms

unblouse

Pronunciation

/ˈblous/ /ˈblaʊs/

Etymology

[ 'blaus also 'blauz ] (noun.) 1828. 1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from French blousse (“scraps of wool used mostly for flannel”) from Occitan (lano) blouso (“pure or short (wool)”) from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), of Germanic origin, from Old High German blōz "naked, bare" (German bloß "bare"), or a conflation of the aforementioned and French blaude, bliaud (“a kind of smock”) from Old French bliau, also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”) from blī- "coloured, bright" + -fald (“crease, fold”). More at blee, fold.