blouse

blouse
—blouselike, adj.
/blows, blowz/, n., v., bloused, blousing.
n.
1. a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
2. a single-breasted, semifitted military jacket.
3. a loose outer garment, reaching to the hip or thigh, or below the knee, and sometimes belted. Cf. smock frock.
v.i.
4. to puff out in a drooping fullness, as a blouse above a fitted waistband.
v.t.
5. to dispose the material of a garment in loose folds, as trouser legs over the tops of boots.
[1820-30; < F, perh. from the phrase *vêtement de laine blouse garment of short (i.e., uncarded, pure) wool; cf. Pr (lano) blouso pure (wool) < OHG bloz naked, c. OE bleat poor, miserable]

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