blouse

Meaning

Noun

uniform or coat with buttons down the front

Verb

1. inflection of blouser:
2. inflection of blouser:

Concepts

blouse

smock

overall

coat

bodice

woman’s blouse

white coat

vest

shirt

shirt blouse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bluz/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Une forme haute se dressa , plus haute semblait-il, dans la longue blouse de toile bise .

A tall shape rose, taller it seemed, in the long canvas bise blouse.