blouse

plural blouses

1. obsoletefashionA shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
2. fashionA shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.

   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

3. fashionA loose-fitting uniform jacket.
4. BangladeshIndiaA short garment worn under a sari.
5. slangLGBTa feminine top in gay sex

present singular third person blouses · participle present blousing · participle past bloused · past bloused

1. To hang a garment in loose folds.
2. governmentTo tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).

   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

3. prisonThe act of hiding contraband, such as drugs or weapons, in one's rectum.

plural blouses

1. alternativeAlternative form of blouze.
2. alternativeAlternative form of blowze.