blouse

Etymology 1
1828, from, see that for more.

More at blee, fold.

Noun

 * 1)  A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
 * 2)  A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
 * 3)  A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
 * 4)  A short garment worn under a.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: bloes
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: ikaʼíí
 * Arabic: بَلُوزَة, بْلُوزَة
 * Belarusian: блу́зка, блу́за
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: bluzo
 * Finnish:, paitapusero
 * French: ,
 * Galician: blusa, chambra
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , camicetta
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: buluza, bluza
 * Kazakh: әйел кәзекейі
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: блу́зка
 * Latin: pēlūsia
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: блуза
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bluse
 * Nynorsk: bluse
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Rwanda-Rundi: ikizibaho
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: köýnek
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Venetian:
 * Walloon:, , ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 工作罩衫
 * Finnish: asetakki
 * Italian: camisaccio
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: blusão
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1) To hang a garment in loose folds.
 * 2)  To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).

Derived terms

 * blousy

Etymology 1
1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:
 * 🇨🇬, from, from , from (🇨🇬)
 * A conflation of the aforementioned and 🇨🇬, (a kind of smock or robe, whence 🇨🇬, ), from, also from , from  + . More at 🇨🇬, , and.
 * From, from , a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

Noun

 * 1) uniform or coat with buttons down the front

Etymology 2
belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17th century and its origin is fr.

Noun

 * 1)  any one of the holes on a billiards table

Noun

 * 1)  smock