blouse
English
/blaʊs/
noun
Definitions
- (fashion) 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) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
Etymology
Derived from French blouse (a workman's peasant's smock, uniform coat with buttons down the front).
Origin
French
blouse
Gloss
a workman's peasant's smock, uniform coat with buttons down the front
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blouseless English
- blouselessness English
- blouselike English
- blousy English
- deblouse English
- downblouse English
- overblouse English
- unblouse English
- underblouse English
- Bluse German
- blúz Hungarian
- blusa Italian
- bloes Dutch, Flemish
- blouse French
- блуза Russian
- луза Russian
- blusa Spanish, Castilian
- bluse Norwegian Bokmål
- ブラウス Japanese
- ブルーズ Japanese
- bluza Polish
- bluse Norwegian Nynorsk
- bluse Danish
- brusa Catalan, Valencian
- بلوز Persian
- blawos Cebuano
- blows Welsh
- blowsys Welsh
- bluz Turkish
- blu Vietnamese
- Blus Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- lano blouso Occitan
- 블라우스 Korean
- blaus Tok Pisin
- libhulawozi Swati
- akanjo bilaozy Malagasy