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blouse
[blous, blouz]
noun
a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
a single-breasted, semifitted military jacket.
a loose outer garment, reaching to the hip or thigh, or below the knee, and sometimes belted.
verb (used without object)
to puff out in a drooping fullness, as a blouse above a fitted waistband.
verb (used with object)
to dispose the material of a garment in loose folds, as trouser legs over the tops of boots.
blouse
/ ʊ /
noun
a woman's shirtlike garment made of cotton, nylon, etc
a loose-fitting smocklike garment, often knee length and belted, worn esp by E European peasants
a loose-fitting waist-length belted jacket worn by soldiers
verb
to hang or make so as to hang in full loose folds
Other Word Forms
- blouselike adjective
- blousy adjective
- unbloused adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of blouse1
Word History and Origins
Origin of blouse1
Example Sentences
Following “the Sydney Cherkov way,” she wears a lilac blouse that telegraphs meek, demure energy.
Kitten heels and full skirts, capri pants and tailored menswear, blouses with crisp collars and one-piece bathing suits feel less like “now” and more like “back then.”
I love zebras, so you can tell I have the coat, the boots with the fringe, all with the black skirt and the blouse.
Macias, calm and dressed in a modest black blouse and jeans, picked a Mexican ice cream shop where she slowly enjoyed a scoop of rocky road inside a waffle cone.
Every spring, I get the urge to buy something new: a sundress, a pretty blouse or something hopeful after a long, drab winter.
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