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blouse

[blous, blouz] / blaʊs, blaʊz /


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Wearing blue jeans and a pink button-down blouse, she echoed the pastel blues and pinks that appear throughout many of the works surrounding her.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

The following year, Ju Ae wore a partially see-through blouse - revealing her arms - to the completion ceremony for a residential area of the capital, Pyongyang.

From BBC May 5, 2026

He complimented her on her blue pleated skirt and white blouse.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

The opening finds her futzing over the neckline of her inauguration day blouse before telling the tailors to slice into the fabric with scissors.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 2026

“Well, I happen to know that there are as many differences between a blouse and a vest as there are between a peach and a banana.”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The company has tried to offer more products beyond jeans — such as dresses, blouses and other items geared toward women — as well as modern riffs on old favorites like 501s.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

Their 1998 “Stromboli” collection revolved around a Christian theme, a Marian procession, and dresses, tunics and blouses featuring Marian imagery.

From Salon May 17, 2026

The character is very loosely based on Aldama, sporting the same flowy blouses, skinny jeans, heeled boots and all-business attitude.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2025

"We had to wear these awful BBC Two blouses," Ms Brown said.

From BBC Nov. 1, 2025

When he went to get them for her, the blouses and skirts were like bright wings of butterflies settled on the branches.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The men are variously clothed in bloused tops and tights.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

Where the small was just that in the chest, and ever so slightly too short in the arms, the medium bloused out a bit at the waist.

From Slate Nov. 24, 2015

His best look: a long dress in a pinwheel print, belted, bloused and all at once both elegant and sensuous.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would see, not tuxedos and silk hats, but bloused men and girls in coarse sleeveless gowns.

From Time Magazine Archive

His trousers settled well on his hips and his white shirt bloused over his belt.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Failing to master synchronized heel pivots of marching drills or proper blousing of his pants, he received the most chits of any of his classmates and was punished repeatedly.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2018

And at the time when the front of every woman's waist fell far below her belt in a copiously blousing sag, Mrs. Marshall's trim tautness had in it something horrifying.

From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Her eyes had something of their old-time sparkle as she reached inside the blousing front of her flannel shirt and laid in Mrs. Toomey’s hand a packet of crisp banknotes secured by bands of elastic.

From The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart




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