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Gown vs Blouse - What's the difference?

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Gown is a related term of blouse.


As verbs the difference between gown and blouse

is that gown is to dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown while blouse is .

As a noun gown

is a loose, flowing upper garment.

gown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loose, flowing upper garment.
  • A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
  • The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
  • # The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
  • (by metonymy) The university community.
  • In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.
  • A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  • Any sort of dress or garb.
  • The robe worn by a surgeon.
  • Derived terms

    * dressing gown * town and gown

    Verb

  • To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
  • References

    Anagrams

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    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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