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blouse

nounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈblaʊ̯z//
  • United States//ˈblaʊ̯s//
  • //ˈblɐʊ̯s//
  • //ˈblɜʊ̯s//
  • //ˈblʌʊ̯s//

A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.

  2. 2

    A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.

    She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.

  3. 3

    A loose-fitting uniform jacket.

  4. 4

    A short garment worn under a sari.

  5. 5

    slanga feminine top in gay sex

Etymology

1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more. More at blee, fold.

verb

  1. 1

    To hang a garment in loose folds.

  2. 2

    To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).

    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. […]"

  3. 3

    The act of hiding contraband, such as drugs or weapons, in one's rectum.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of blouzeAlternative form of blouze.

  2. 2

    Variant of blowzeAlternative form of blowze.

Forms

plural
blouses
past tense
bloused
past participle
bloused
present participle
blousing
third person singular
blouses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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