blouse
See also: blousé
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /blaʊs/, /blaʊz/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /bluːz/[1]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz
Noun edit
blouse (plural blouses)
- (fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
- (fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
- (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
- (India, Bangladesh) A short garment worn under a sari.
Synonyms edit
- bodice (also used for undershirts)
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)
- → Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)
- → Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)
- → Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)
- → Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)
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. […] "
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "military"): unblouse
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
blouse (plural blouses)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 8.35, page 241.
Anagrams edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
blouse f (plural blouses, diminutive blouseje n)
- Alternative spelling of bloes
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:
- 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 bliaud, bliaut (a kind of smock or robe, whence English bliaus, bliaut), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from *blīu (“coloured, bright”) + *fald (“crease, fold”). More at English blee, fold, and bliaut.
- From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.
Noun edit
blouse f (plural blouses)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: بَلُوزَة (balūza), بْلُوزَة (blūza)
- → Catalan: brusa
- → Czech: blůza
- → Danish: bluse
- → 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 edit
belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17th century and its origin is unknown.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
blouse f (plural blouses)
Descendants edit
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
blouse
- inflection of blouser:
Further reading edit
- “blouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
blouse f (plural blouses)