blouse
See also: blousé
English
Etymology 1
1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), which see for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
blouse (plural blouses)
- (fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
- (fashion) A shirt for women, particularly a shirt with buttons; a dress shirt tailored for women.
- (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
Synonyms
- bodice (also used for undershirts)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
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
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- 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
- (military): unblouse
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
blouse (plural blouses)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
blouse f (plural blouses, diminutive blouseje n)
- Alternative spelling of bloes
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
1788, of obscure origin. Three theories include:
- French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German blōz "naked, bare" (German bloss "bare")
- A conflation of the aforementioned and French blaude, bliaud (“a kind of smock”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French bliau, also from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from blī- "coloured, bright" + -fald (“crease, fold”), from Proto-Germanic *blīwą + *falþaną. More at blee, fold.
- From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.
Noun
blouse f (plural blouses)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: بَلُوزَة (balūza), بْلُوزَة (blūza)
- → Czech: blůza
- → Dutch: bloes, blouse
- → English: blouse
- → German: Bluse, Blouse
- → German Low German: Bluus
- → Italian: blusa
- → Luxembourgish: Blus
- → Norwegian: bluse
- → Persian: بلوز (boluz, bluz)
- → Polish: bluza
- → Portuguese: blusa
- → Romanian: bluză
- → Spanish: blusa
- → Tagalog: blusa
- → Swedish: blus
- → Turkish: bluz
- → Venetian: bluxa
- → Walloon: blouze
Etymology 2
belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17th century and its origin is unknown.
Alternative forms
Noun
blouse f (plural blouses)
Descendants
Etymology 3
Verb
blouse
- first-person singular present indicative of blouser
- third-person singular present indicative of blouser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
- second-person singular imperative of blouser
Further reading
- “blouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
blouse f (plural blouses)
Synonyms
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