blouse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), of obscure origin. Three theories include:
- French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from Old High German blōz "naked, bare" (German bloss "bare")
- A conflation of the aforementioned and French blaude, bliaud (“a kind of smock”), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from blī- "coloured, bright" + -fald (“crease, fold”). More at blee, fold.
- From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
blouse (plural blouses)
- 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.
- (military) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
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Translations[edit]
an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
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military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket
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Verb[edit]
blouse (third-person singular simple present blouses, present participle blousing, simple past and past participle bloused)
- To hang a garment in loose folds.
- (military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
- 1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311
- An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail to blouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked. […] "
- 1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311
Antonyms[edit]
- (military): unblouse
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Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
blouse f (plural blouses, diminutive blouseje)
- Alternative spelling of bloes.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1788, of obscure origin. Three theories include:
- French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from Old High German blōz "naked, bare" (German bloss "bare")
- A conflation of the aforementioned and French blaude, bliaud (“a kind of smock”), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from blī- "coloured, bright" + -fald (“crease, fold”). More at blee, fold.
- From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.
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Noun[edit]
blouse f (plural blouses)
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Verb[edit]
blouse
- first-person singular present indicative of blouser
- third-person singular present indicative of blouser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
- second-person singular imperative of blouser
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Jèrriais[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
blouse f (plural blouses)
Synonyms[edit]
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- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Frankish
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- en:Military
- English verbs
- en:Clothing
- Dutch nouns
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- French terms derived from Old High German
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- roa-jer:Clothing
