blouse
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In college, I found a treadle machine in an empty dorm room, oiled it and made a blouse and quilt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
The garment gained prominence last week when President John Dramani Mahama wore it during a state visit to Zambia, where some mockingly called it a "blouse," prompting a fierce response from Ghanaians online.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
Her standard work outfit is a “beige skirt, pale pink blouse, black pumps.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Usually, she liked wearing khaki pants, a simple blouse, and loafers.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
She had rejected the extravagantly frilled silver blouse they tried to put her in and selected a thin, emerald-green jersey, tucked into the trousers.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
She recommends looking at the age and material of your shirts, blouses and T-shirts before deciding how to store them.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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
Hawkers, girls much younger than I, defied the school gate men, edging closer and closer to the cars to offer peeled oranges and bananas and groundnuts, their moth-eaten blouses slipping off their shoulders.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Polo ponies, 115, led by bright-turbaned Indians and blue bloused U. S. grooms, wound slowly around the field.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have replaced belts with sashes, bared arms and necks, lowered hiplines, emphasized the bloused dress and overblouse.
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
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
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
