What is the difference between blouse and shirt?
blouse | shirt |
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
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
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a member of the shirt-wearing team.
As nouns the difference between blouse and shirt
is that 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 while shirt is an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.As verbs the difference between blouse and shirt
is that blouse is to hang a garment in loose folds while shirt is to cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.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
* * ----shirt
English
(wikipedia shirt)Noun
(en noun)- Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts .
- She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
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