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Cloak vs Blouse - What's the difference?

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Cloak is a related term of blouse.


As verbs the difference between cloak and blouse

is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while blouse is .

As a noun cloak

is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

cloak

English

(wikipedia cloak)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  • (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  • * South
    • No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
  • (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

    • Derived terms

    * cloak and dagger

    See also

    * burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costume

    Verb

  • To cover as with a cloak.
  • (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
    • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

    Derived terms

    * cloaking device

    blouse

    English

    (wikipedia blouse)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * deblouse

    Verb

    (blous)
  • 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 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) unblouse

    Derived terms

    * unblouse

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