Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of blousy.
She thinks of a child, an almost frail, very slender girl who wears lacey, blousey dresses, a wide bow around her waist, little white socks and white patent leather shoes.
1999 January, Richard Lyons, chapter 11, in The Edge of Things, Midlothian, Va.: Van Neste Books, →ISBN, page 752 more examples
The partially completed painting already included a vignette of the heads of Alice and her two siblings, from the photograph in Two Women, flatly painted in two colors, and the standing figure of Alice, in a blousey dress and a large hat, who with the faint modeling appears like a dimming memory.
1995, Patricia Hills, “May Stevens: Painting History as Lived Feminist Experience”, in Patricia M[ullan] Burnham, Lucretia Hoover Giese, editors, Redefining American History Painting, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part III (Didactic Intent), page 328She wore taupe jodhpurs and a white blousey dress shirt with rolled sleeves, and even at this distance, buried in pillows and peering through the ropes of the hammock, I could see the glitter of a diamond tennis bracelet on her wrist, along with matching diamond pendants hanging from her ears.
2016, Blaize Clement, John Clement, The Cat Sitter and the Canary (A Dixie Hemingway Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 29
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