Blazer vs Blouse - What's the difference?
blazer | blouse |
A semi-formal, casual jacket.
A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
(slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
(archaic) One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
* Spenser
(slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
An outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt and reaches from the neck to the waist or below. Nowadays, in colloquial use, blouse refers almost always to a woman's shirt that buttons down the front.
(military) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
To hang a garment in loose folds.
(military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
* 1989 , Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military , page 311
As nouns the difference between blazer and blouse
is that blazer is a semi-formal, casual jacket while blouse is an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt and reaches from the neck to the waist or below. Nowadays, in colloquial use, blouse refers almost always to a woman's shirt that buttons down the front.As a verb blouse is
to hang a garment in loose folds.blazer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Blazers of crime.
See also
* trailblazer English agent nouns ----blouse
English
(wikipedia blouse)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* deblouseVerb
(blous)- 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. "