blouse

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"'I can pay,' she said, which I had not doubted, for her blouse was a very expensive one; though I thought her skirt looked queer, and her hat--Did I say she had a hat on?

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  1. noun A woman's or child's loosely fitting shirt that extends to the waist or slightly below. See Regional Note at greasy.
  2. noun A loosely fitting garment resembling a long shirt, worn especially by European workmen.
  3. noun The service coat or tunic worn by the members of some branches of the U.S. armed forces.
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  • The skirt was nearly sixty dollars, however, and the blouse was another thirty. —  VC Andrews - Broken Wings
  • When he'd done crying and my blouse was a blotched mess, Victor had drawn back, appalled at his breakdown. —  grave Surprise
  • The ordinary tars wore the conventional dark--blue, baggy trousers, and a blouse of the same colour, cut to a "V" shape at the neck in front, but minus the collar at the back which European seamen have adopted, while the skirt of the blouse was allowed to hang loose outside the trousers, instead of being tucked in. —  A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
  • He was dressed in a plain blue blouse, and as he had no straps on his shoulders, Paul thought he was the General's orderly Is General Grant about?" —  Winning His Way
  • Deep in a little pocket inside her blouse was the ring with the three little pearls I do hope, Maggie darling," he said, "you don't think it strange our not going somewhere else for our honeymoon. —  The Captives
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  1. French, possibly alteration (influenced by blousse, wool scraps, of Germanic origin) of obsolete French blaude, from Old French bliaut, probably of Germanic origin .

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  1. Also less properly blowse; from French blouse, of uncertain origin, by some identified with French dial. blaude, biaude, a smock-frock, from Old French bliaut, bliaud, plural bliaus, bliauz, an upper garment: see bleaunt. But the connection is phonetically improbable.
 

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