blouse

See also: blousé

English
A blouse

Etymology 1

1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), of obscure origin. Three hypotheses 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, 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 Lower Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

More at blee, fold.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /blaʊs/, /blaʊz/
  • Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz

Noun

blouse (plural blouses)

  1. (fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
  2. (fashion) A shirt for women, particularly a shirt with buttons; a dress shirt tailored for women.
  3. (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
Synonyms
  • bodice (also used for undershirts)
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Verb

blouse (third-person singular simple present blouses, present participle blousing, simple past and past participle bloused)

  1. To hang a garment in loose folds.
  2. (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. […] "
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Etymology 2

Noun

blouse (plural blouses)

  1. Alternative form of blouze
  2. Alternative form of blowess
  3. Alternative form of blowze
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Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /blus/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: blou‧se

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses, diminutive blouseje n)

  1. Alternative spelling of bloes

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bluz/
  • audio(file)

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

  1. uniform or coat with buttons down the front
    blouse d'hôpital — hospital gown

Descendants

Verb

blouse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of blouser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of blouser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
  5. second-person singular imperative of blouser

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Etymology

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

  1. (Jersey) smock

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