BLOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blouse mean? 

• BLOUSE (noun)
  The noun BLOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a top worn by women

  Familiarity information: BLOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A top worn by women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("blouse" is a kind of...):

top (a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips)

Meronyms (parts of "blouse"):

neckline (the line formed by the edge of a garment around the neck)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blouse"):

garibaldi (a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after the red flannel shirts worn by Garibaldi's soldiers)

guimpe (a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress)

middy; middy blouse (blouse with a sailor collar)

shirtwaist; shirtwaister (a blouse with buttons down the front)

 Context examples 

His hand was on my throat and my senses were nearly gone before an unshaven French ouvrier in a blue blouse darted out from a cabaret opposite, with a cudgel in his hand, and struck my assailant a sharp crack over the forearm, which made him leave go his hold.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)