Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A garment, such as a dress or shirt, with a fitted waistband over which material blouses.
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- noun A
garment drawn tight at thewaist withblousing hanging over the waistband
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jolie's stylist Jen Rade later confirmed to Usmagazine. com that she wore the dress backwards deliberately to make it more 'blouson' and to show off her body art
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
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Her stylist Jen Rade later confirmed to Usmagazine. com that she wore the dress backwards deliberately to make it more "blouson" and to show off her body art.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
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Peter punched Frank before weeping openly in his leather blouson.
World Of Lather 2011
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Carrie Underwood is now wearing blouson leather shorts, a tux jacket and a top hat.
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Me retournant, je vis un petit type de vingt ans, pantalon et blouson noir, agitant une machete, entouré de comparses, quatre peut-être, deux ou trois avec des machetes.
Global Voices in English » Maghreb: Ramadan Good Wishes and More 2009
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For the best shearling, also look to Miu Miu—try their cream blouson with removable hood and black piping £2,100.
Luxuriously Cozy Winter Coats Tina Gaudoin 2011
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At Miu Miu, you can buy a tiny sleeveless pale-blue blouson with black piping and a zipper, which won 't keep anything aside from your breasts warm, but looks pretty damn stylish.
Parka Perfection Tina Gaudoin 2010
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“Who” was the word, and he hastily pulled his dog tags from the neck of his blouson, waving the red and green disks at them.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Linkin Park The Catalyst (Warners) In which the Californians stuff their nu-metal bunions into electronic espadrilles and their aged torsos into the pleather blouson of flagrant bandwagoneering.
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The rise of the BNP which, if nothing else, taught us your average British racist moron is less likely to look like a skinhead than – to borrow comedy writer David Quantick's description – "aman in a leather blouson jacket who looks like he smells of wanking".
qroqqa commented on the word blouson
Downstairs at seven-thirty, I was greeted by Jean-Luc Cazes, one of those old-fashioned, Left-Bank, anarcho-rock characters (tired leather blouson, pipe wedged in the corner of mouth), the sort of genial zinc-bar philosopher you suspect has an alarming success rate among women.
— Julian Barnes, 1996, 'Gnossienne', in Cross Channel
blouson: a loose outer garment gathered into a waistband
blouson noir: a rebellious young man, usu as one of a group, so called from the black windcheaters worn by many of them
—Chambers
July 10, 2008