# blouse
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blaʊs/, /blaʊz/
* (obsolete) IPA: /bluːz/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz

#### Noun

blouse (plural blouses)
* (fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
* (fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
* (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
* (India, Bangladesh) A short garment worn under a sari.

##### Synonyms

* bodice (also used for undershirts)

##### Hyponyms

* Watteau bodice

##### Derived terms

* big girl's blouse
* bloused
* blouseless
* blouselike
* blousy
* downblouse
* girl's blouse
* middy blouse
* overblouse
* peasant blouse
* peekaboo blouse
* poet blouse
* Russian blouse
* shirtwaist blouse
* underblouse

##### Descendants

* → Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)
* → Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)
* → Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)
* → Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)
* → Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)

##### Translations
#### Verb

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).
** 1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311: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. […] "

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “military”): unblouse

##### Derived terms

* deblouse
* unblouse

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

blouse (plural blouses)
* Alternative form of blouze
* Alternative form of blowess
* Alternative form of blowze

##### Derived terms

* blousy

### References

* ↑ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 8.35, page 241.

### Anagrams

* Belous, Lobues, besoul, boules, obelus

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blus/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: blou‧se
* Rhymes: -us

### Noun

blouse f (plural blouses, diminutive blouseje n)
* Alternative spelling of bloes

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bluz/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:
* French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from Old High German blōz (“naked, bare”) (German bloß (“bare”))
* A conflation of the aforementioned and French bliaud, bliaut (a kind of smock or robe, whence English bliaus, bliaut), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from *blīu (“coloured, bright”) + *fald (“crease, fold”). More at English blee, fold, and bliaut.
* From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

#### Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)
* uniform or coat with buttons down the front
    blouse d’hôpital ― hospital gown

##### Derived terms

* blouses blanches

##### Related terms

* blousard
* blouson

##### Descendants

* → Arabic: بَلُوزَة (balūza), بْلُوزَة (blūza)
* → Catalan: brusa
* → Czech: blůza
* → Danish: bluse
* → Dutch: bloes, blouse
** Afrikaans: bloes
** Petjo: bloes (archaic)
** → Caribbean Hindustani: blus
** → Caribbean Javanese: blus
** → Indonesian: blus
* → English: blouse
** → Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)
** → Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)
** → Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)
** → Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)
** → Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)
* → German: Bluse, Blouse
** → Bulgarian: блу́за (blúza)
** → Hungarian: blúz
** → Hunsrik: Bluse
** → Macedonian: блуза (bluza)
** → Russian: блу́за (blúza)
** → Serbo-Croatian: blúza
* → German Low German: Bluus
* → Italian: blusa
* → Luxembourgish: Blus
* → Norwegian: bluse
* → Persian: بلوز (boluz, bluz)
* → Polish: bluza
* → Portuguese: blusa
* → Romanian: bluză
* → Spanish: blusa
** → Tagalog: blusa
* → Swedish: blus
* → Turkish: bluz
* → Venetan: bluxa
* → Walloon: blouze

### Etymology 2

belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17th century and its origin is unknown.

#### Alternative forms

* belouse, belouzes

#### Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)
* (archaic) any one of the holes on a billiards table

##### Descendants

* → German: Blouse, Bluse
* → Russian: лу́за (lúza)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

blouse
* inflection of blouser:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “blouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* boules

## Norman
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)
* (Jersey) smock

#### Synonyms

* c'mînsole dé molleton