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▪ I. blouse, n.|blaʊz|
[a. mod.F. blouse (pron. bluz) of obscure etymology: see Littré and Scheler.]
1. a. A light loose upper garment of linen or cotton, resembling a shirt or smock-frock; properly applied (as an alien term) to the well-known blue blouse of the French workman, but in England sometimes used loosely to designate more or less similar garments.
1828Engl. in France II. 100 (Stanford), Neither wearers of plaid, nor devourers of porridge, but blousses and soupe maigre well supplied the want. [1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 89 A garment called bliaut or bliaus, which appears to have been only another name for the surcoat or super-tunic..In this bliaus we may discover the modern French blouse, a tunic or smock-frock.] 1840Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. (1872) 6 Another has a shooting dress, a third has a blouse. 1875J. Curtis Hist. Eng. 153 The lower classes wore a blouse or kind of small frock, made of canvas or fustian. 1879Kingston Australian Abr. ii. 11 A blue blouse, tied with a sash around the waist.
b. (a) U.S., a waist-length dress or undress military coat; (b) the upper part of a soldier's or airman's battledress.
1861Chicago Tribune 26 May 1/3 Cassinet pants are supplied the volunteers... They cost the State $5, and blouses made of shoddy, with pants, $10. 1939Jrnl. R. United Service Instit. Nov. 858 Commanders of formations only will wear a scarlet cord boss at each point of the collar of the battle dress blouse. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 16 June 8/6 For retreat formations the battalion turns out in dress blouses with buttons shining. 1948A. Baron From City, from Plough v. 41 Alfie sweated, trembled inside his battleblouse.
2. transf. A French workman.
1865G. Berkeley Life II. 281 No wealth of gold would tempt a blouse to risk a charge from an old boar at such close quarters. 1872Lytton Parisians xi. xi. (1878) II. 223 De Mauléon came on a group of blouses.
3. A loosely-fitting bodice worn by women and girls, usually tucked inside the skirt at the waist. Also, formerly called blouse-bodice (cf. blousée, shirt-blouse).
1870Young Ladies' Jrnl. 1 Oct. 626/1 A costume for a young lady... A blouse, or tunic, of white and pink-striped silk. 1887Cassell's Fam. Mag. Sept. 631/1 Frenchwomen show just the same favour to the blouse bodices as their sisters across the Channel. 1899Daily News 14 Jan. 2/4 The fashionable blouse, or ‘blouse-bodice’. 1909Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 5/2 Blouses will be more in evidence this season than ever, for the mere strap that forms the bodice of the newest gowns, and the high waists, and bretelles, all demand the finishing touch of a blouse.
4. attrib. and Comb., as blouse-maker, blouse-making (also attrib.), blouse panier; blouse-clad, blouse-like adjs.; blouse coat, a blouse to be worn outside the skirt at the waist; blouse length, a piece of material sufficient for the making of a blouse, cut off for sale; blouse slip (see slip n.3 4 c); blouse suit, a blouse and skirt finished complete, and ready to wear.
1892Daily News 2 July 6/7 A comparison between the blouse-clad ladies and those who wear habit-bodices.
1898Westm. Gaz. 16 June 3/2 Blouses and blouse coats of Irish lace.
1910Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 3/3 Who..would venture to buy a blouse-length with the fate of the Budget hanging in the balance?
1874Boutell Arms & Arm. 107 The body armour is..a long, narrow, blouse-like garment.
1905Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 3/5 A wife who was employed at a blouse-maker's.
1905Pearson's Mag. July 105/1 The blouse-making industry. 1908Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 8/2 Working at blouse-making.
1883Myra's Jrnl. Aug., Narrow box-pleated blouse paniers.
1907Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 8/2 How to make a Blouse-Slip. 1909Daily Chron. 22 Feb. 7/5 With these cashmere gowns, blouse-slips of various kinds can be worn.
1905Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 8/5 Blouse-Suits in Velveteens, Silks, and Various Cloths.
▸ Brit. slang (depreciative). A person regarded as feeble, cowardly, or emotionally over-sensitive; an ineffectual or effeminate male; originally and chiefly in big girl's blouse.
1969J. Stevenson Nearest & Dearest Series 2. Episode 1. (camera script) 13 Eli.: Go round talking like that, you'll be hearing from our solicitor. Nellie.: He is our solicitor, you big girl's blouse. 1978W. Donaldson Balloons in Black Bag 41 The big girl's blouse was sat seated on the bench, eyes closed, a look of foolish rapture on his face. 1987R. Curtis & B. Elton in Blackadder (1998) 261/2 Oh, Mr Byron. Don't be such a big girl's blouse! 1992Outdoor Walking Oct. 50, I was, I explained, a bit of a big girl's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges. 1994I. Welsh Acid House 235 He sewed me up. Eight poxy stitches. I was right first time; Hobo was a namby-pamby blouse. 1996P. Gregory Perfectly Correct (1997) 93 It's not right that she's stuck with that girl's blouse Toby Summers. 2000Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 30 Apr. (Mag.) 62/1, I am a big Jessie. A big girl's blouse.
▪ II. blouse, v.|blaʊz|
[f. the n.]
1. intr. To assume a blouse-like form (Webster, 1909).
1938J. Rice Somers Inheritance iv. vii. 270 Her hat fell off and her hair bloused about her ears.
2. trans. To make (the bodice of a garment) full, like a blouse.
1934Times 12 Nov. 17/5 She blouses the bodices.
▪ III. blouse
variant of blowze. |