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blouse

[blous, blouz] / blaʊs, blaʊz /


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Everyone looks on and it’s obvious why: She is practically glowing in an angelic white pantsuit and a yellow blouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The minute you glance at a blazer, blouse or sweatshirt, a saleswoman is at your elbow, asking if she can find your size or suggest a pair of pants to match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

I tried to stay calm and told her to use her blouse to wipe off the blood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026

I’ve never met Louisa but I can picture her because I can picture all my colleagues: plain black skirt, white blouse, tidy hair.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Blue Tab, launched in Asia earlier this year before an April release in the U.S., brings Japanese-inspired denim jackets and pants, as well as T-shirts and blouses, under Levi’s own brand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Back at O’Toole’s, she mended wool skirts and hand-washed blouses; she de-pilled sweaters and polished used saddle shoes.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Emanuel Ungaro's Moroccan striped minidresses are bloused at the hips with yarn belts and designed to be worn over red or green tights.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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