A silverblouse worn tucked into a red skirt (photographed in 2015).
A white, floralblouse made in the style of 1940s fashion on display.
1828, fromFrenchblouse(“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
More atblee,fold.
blouse (pluralblouses)
- (fashion, obsolete) Ashirt,typicallyloose andreaching from theneck to thewaist.
- (fashion) Ashirt forwomen orgirls,particularly a shirt withbuttons and often acollar; adress shirttailored forwomen.
- (military fashion) Aloose-fittinguniformjacket.
- (India, Bangladesh) A short garment worn under asari.
- bodice(also used for undershirts)
an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
- Afrikaans:bloes
- Apache:
- Western Apache:ikaʼíí
- Arabic:بَلُوزَة f(balūza),بْلُوزَة f(blūza)
- Belarusian:блу́зка f(blúzka),блу́за f(blúza)
- Bulgarian:блу́за (bg) f(blúza)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:女襯衫 /女衬衫 (zh)(nǚ chènshān)
- Czech:blůza (cs) f,halenka (cs) f
- Dutch:blouse (nl),bloes (nl)
- Esperanto:bluzo
- Finnish:pusero (fi),paitapusero
- French:chemisier (fr) m,corsage (fr) m
- Galician:blusa f,chambra f
- German:Bluse (de) f
- Greek:μπλούζα (el) f(bloúza)
- Gujarati:બ્લાઉઝ(blāujha)
- Hungarian:blúz (hu)
- Ido:bluzo (io),korsajo (io)
- Indonesian:blus (id)
- Italian:camicia (it) f,blusa (it) f,camicetta f
- Japanese:ブラウス (ja)(burausu)
- Kabuverdianu:buluza,bluza
- Kazakh:әйел кәзекейі(äiel käzekeiı)
- Korean:블라우스 (ko)(beullauseu)
- Kyrgyz:блу́зка f(blúzka)
- Latin:supparum n,pēlūsia
- Lithuanian:palaidinė (lt)
- Low German:Bluus (nds) f
- Luxembourgish:Blus (lb) f
- Macedonian:блуза (mk) f(bluza)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:bluse m orf
- Nynorsk:bluse m orf
- Persian:بلوز (fa)(bluz),شومیز (fa)(šomiz)
- Polish:bluzka (pl) f,bluza (pl) f
- Portuguese:blusa (pt) f
- Romanian:bluză (ro) f
- Russian:блу́зка (ru) f(blúzka),блу́за (ru) f(blúza)
- Rwanda-Rundi:ikizibaho
- Spanish:blusa (es) f
- Swedish:blus (sv)
- Tagalog:blusa (tl)
- Turkish:bluz (tr)
- Turkmen:köýnek
- Ukrainian:блу́зка (uk) f(blúzka),блу́за (uk) f(blúza)
- Venetan:bluxa (vec) f
- Walloon:tchimijhî (wa) m,coirsaedje (wa) m(old),blouze (wa) f,taeye (wa) f
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military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket
blouse (third-person singular simple presentblouses,present participleblousing,simple past and past participlebloused)
- Tohang agarment inloosefolds.
- (military) Totuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
1989, Bernard C. Nalty,Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page311:An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail toblouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked.[…]"
blouse (pluralblouses)
- Alternative form ofblouze
- Alternative form ofblowess
- Alternative form ofblowze
- IPA(key): /blus/
- Hyphenation:blou‧se
- Rhymes:-us
blouse f (pluralblouses,diminutiveblouseje n)
- Alternative spelling ofbloes
1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:
- Frenchblousse(“scraps of wool”), fromOccitanlano blouso(“pure or short wool”), fromblous, blos(“pure, empty, bare”), fromOld High Germanblōz(“naked, bare”) (Germanbloß(“bare”))
- A conflation of the aforementioned andFrenchbliaud,bliaut (a kind of smock or robe, whenceEnglishbliaus,bliaut), fromOld Frenchbliau, also fromFrankish*blīfald(“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from*blīu(“coloured, bright”) +*fald(“crease, fold”). More atEnglishblee,fold, andbliaut.
- FromMedieval Latinpelusia, fromPelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.
blouse f (pluralblouses)
- uniform orcoat with buttons down the front
- blouse d’hôpital ―hospital gown
belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17th century and its origin is unknown.
blouse f (pluralblouses)
- (archaic) any one of theholes on abilliards table
blouse
- inflection ofblouser:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
blouse f (pluralblouses)
- (Jersey)smock
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