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blouses

blouses is the plural of blouse.

Meaning of blouse

Noun

blouse (plural blouses)

  1. (obsolete) 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.
    • She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.1964, Philip K. Dick, “NINE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 112
  3. A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
  4. (Bangladesh, India) A short garment worn under a sari.
  5. (slang) a feminine top in gay sex

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Questions about blouses

What is blouses the plural of?
Blouses is the plural of blouse.

Words near blouses in the dictionary

  1. blouse
  2. bloused
  3. blouseless
  4. blouselessness
  5. blouselike
  6. blouses
  7. blousey
  8. blousie
  9. blousier
  10. blousies
  11. blousiest

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