Blouse vs Huipil - What's the difference?
blouse | huipil |
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
A traditional blouse worn by the women of various indigenous peoples of Central America including the Maya and Zapotec, or the textile from which such a garment is made.
*{{quote-news, 1988, February 5, Salena Fuller, On Exhibit: modern art of the ancient Maya, Chicago Reader
, passage=A woman weaves her huipil after praying to the saints, who are believed to have taught women to weave "in the beginning of time. }}
As a verb blouse
is .As a noun huipil is
a traditional blouse worn by the women of various indigenous peoples of central america including the maya and zapotec, or the textile from which such a garment is made.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. "
Antonyms
* (military) unblouseDerived terms
* unblouseAnagrams
* * ----huipil
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