Blouse Definition

blous, blouz

bloused, blouses, blousing

noun

A loose, smocklike outer garment of varying length, traditionally worn by certain European peasants and workmen.

Webster's New World

A loose garment similar to a shirt, worn esp. by women.

Webster's New World

A sailor's jumper.

Webster's New World

The coat or jacket of a service uniform or dress uniform of the armed forces.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

verb

To hang or cause to hang loosely and fully.

American Heritage

To gather in and drape over loosely.

Webster's New World

Wiktionary

(military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Blouse

Singular:

blouse

Plural:

blouses

A conflation of the aforementioned and French blaude, bliaud (“a kind of smock”), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from blī- "coloured, bright" + -fald (“crease, fold”). More at blee, fold.

From Wiktionary
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")

From Wiktionary
French possibly alteration (influenced by blousse wool scraps) (of Germanic origin) of obsolete French blaude from Old French bliaut probably of Germanic origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

From Wiktionary