bloused
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
bloused (not comparable)
- Wearing a blouse.
- 1837, [Augustus] Granville, “Ems, or Bad-Ems”, in The Spas of Germany, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 518:
- Whatever you do, when a good number has been recommended to you, never, by any chance, attempt to go yourself to the donkey-shed, but send for the animal; else you will be assailed, and tossed to and fro for an hour, by the red-capped, blue-bloused attendant, pushed and jostled, and stunned with their exclamations and attempts to address you in English, until a police officer comes to your rescue, recommends a particular animal, and away you go—having previously made a bargain to pay, either by the hour or according to distance.
- 1850, [Charles Kingsley], “A Patriot’s Reward”, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 168:
- There was a bloused and bearded Frenchman or two; but the majority were, as was to have been expected, the oppressed, the starved, the untaught, the despairing, the insane; […].
- 1852 January, Angus B. Reach, “A Look into the Landes”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, part I, number 278, London: Colburn & Co., […], page 81:
- Nine-tenths of Englishmen hurrying through France find the monotony dreary, the same unfenced, wide-spreading sketches of land, the same bloused and sabotted peasantry, the same poplars on the road sides, and lime trees in the public places of the towns.
- 1898, J[oseph] O[rton] Kerbey, “Gettysburg—The Sharpshooters—A Council at Meade’s Headquarters—Is the Honor Due to Howard or Hancock?—The Charges of the Pennsylvania Reserves—Kilpatrick Under Fire—Good-By”, in Further Adventures of the Boy Spy in Dixie, Washington, D.C.: The National Tribune, page 354:
- As we marched by, and these citizen-soldiers, who were fresh in their picturesque zoo-zoo uniforms, or as they are sometimes called, “Night-drawers Cadets,” the dirty-looking old blue-bloused veterans chaffed them most unmercifully.
- 1984, David Storey, Present Times, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 112:
- She indicated Elise, bloused and jeaned, sitting cross-legged on the floor by the fire.
Verb edit
bloused
- simple past and past participle of blouse