blouse

CEFRB1

/ˈblaʊ̯z/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
A short garment worn under a sari.

In context

Please unbutton your blouse.
She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
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. […]"

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She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
1964, Philip K. Dick, “NINE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 112
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. […]"
1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311

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