blouse

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A 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 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.

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   1. 4

      A short garment worn under a sari.

   2. 5

      To hang a garment in loose folds.

   3. 6

      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. […]"
   4. 7

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

   5. 8

      Alternative form of blouze.

   6. 9

      Alternative form of blowze.

The neighborhood

• synonymbodice
• antonymunblouseantonym(s) of “military”
• neighborWatteau bodice