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Definitions for Blouse

[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. Compare smock frock.
[4] to puff out in a drooping fullness, as a blouse above a fitted waistband.
[5] to dispose the material of a garment in loose folds, as trouser legs over the tops of boots.
[6] a woman's shirtlike garment made of cotton, nylon, etc
[7] a loose-fitting smocklike garment, often knee length and belted, worn esp by E European peasants
[8] a loose-fitting waist-length belted jacket worn by soldiers
[9] to hang or make so as to hang in full loose folds

Words related to Blouse

turtleneck, bodice, pullover, shell, T-shirt, slipover, middy, bodysuit

Words nearby Blouse

blotchy, blotter, blotting paper, blotto, blount's disease, blouse, blouson, blousy, bloviate, blow, blow a fuse

Origin of Blouse

1820–30; < French, perhaps from the phrase *vêtement de laine blouse garment of short (i.e., uncarded, pure) wool; compare Provençal (lano ) blouso pure (wool) < Old High German blōz naked, cognate with Old English bleat poor, miserable

Other words from Blouse

blouse·like , adjective
blous·y , adjective
un·bloused , adjective

Word origin for Blouse

C19: from French, of unknown origin

Synonyms for Blouse

bodice, pullover, turtleneck, T-shirt, middy, shell, slipover, V-neck, bodysuit