blouse
(noun) a top worn by women
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blouse (plural blouses)
(fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
(fashion) A shirt for women, particularly a shirt with buttons; a dress shirt tailored for women.
(military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
• bodice (also used for undershirts)
• Watteau bodice
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).
• (military): unblouse
blouse (plural blouses)
Alternative form of blouze
Alternative form of blowess
Alternative form of blowze
• Belous, Lobues, besoul, boules, obelus
Source: Wiktionary
Blouse, n. Etym: [F. blouse. Of unknown origin.]
Definition: A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
