Blouse vs Unbloused - What's the difference?
blouse | unbloused |
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
(unblouse)
Not bloused.
* 2005 , Keith E. Bonn, Army Officer's Guide (page 520)
As verbs the difference between blouse and unbloused
is that blouse is to hang a garment in loose folds while unbloused is past tense of unblouse.As a noun 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.As an adjective unbloused is
not bloused.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
* * ----unbloused
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- The uniform is worn with combat boots, but unbloused .