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Blues vs Blouse - What's the difference?

blues | blouse |

As a proper noun blues

is (informal) any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue.

As a verb blouse is

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blues

English

Noun

(-)
  • English plurals
    • The painting was vibrantly colored in reds and greens and blues .
  • (informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
  • * 1883 ,
    • If we had been allowed to sit idle we should all have fallen into the blues ...
  • (singular or plural, informal) One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
    • Your blues is just like mine.
    Your blues are just like mine.
  • A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
    • Many great blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region.
    A large portion of modern popular music is influenced by the blues .
  • (music, always singular) A musical composition following blues forms.
    • My next number is a blues in G.
  • A uniform made principally of a blue fabric.
    • ''The marched in their dress blues .
  • (sports) Any of a number of sports teams which wear blue kit.
  • # (Australian rules football) .
  • # (rugby league) .
  • # (soccer, Birmingham) .
  • # (soccer, Liverpool) .
  • # (soccer, London) .
  • # (soccer, Manchester) .

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from blues) * baby blues * blue note * blues-rock * blues scale * bluesy * cry the blues * delta blues * eight-bar blues * twelve-bar blues

    See also

    * (musical form) boogie, jazz, rock and roll, shuffle, turnaround

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blue)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    blouse

    English

    (wikipedia blouse)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * deblouse

    Verb

    (blous)
  • 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
    • 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. "

    Antonyms

    * (military) unblouse

    Derived terms

    * unblouse

    Anagrams

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