Blouse vs Sweatshirt - What's the difference?
blouse | sweatshirt |
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 loose shirt, usually made of a knit fleece, for athletic wear and now often used as casual apparel.
A shirt worn against the skin, usually under other clothing, to absorb sweat.
As nouns the difference between blouse and sweatshirt
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 sweatshirt is a loose shirt, usually made of a knit fleece, for athletic wear and now often used as casual apparel.As a verb blouse
is to hang a garment in loose folds.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. "
