Blouse vs Tunic - What's the difference?
blouse | tunic |
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 garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
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As a verb blouse
is .As a noun tunic is
a garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.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
* * ----tunic
English
(wikipedia tunic)Alternative forms
* tunick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}