Blouse vs Smock - What's the difference?
blouse | smock |
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 woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
*14th century ,
*:Before the folk herselfe stripped she,
*:And in her smock , with foot and head all bare,
*:Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
A blouse; a smock frock.
A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. .
To apply smocking.
As nouns the difference between blouse and smock
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 smock is a woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.As verbs the difference between blouse and smock
is that blouse is to hang a garment in loose folds while smock is to provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson.As an adjective smock is
of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock.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
* * ----smock
English
(wikipedia smock)Noun
(en noun)- (Carlyle)