Gown vs Blouse - What's the difference?
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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.
A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
Any sort of dress or garb.
The robe worn by a surgeon.
To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
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
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)- In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.
Derived terms
* dressing gown * town and gownVerb
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*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. "