different between cloak vs blouse

English

Alternative forms

• cloke (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos-, ultimately imitative.

Doublet of clock.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

cloak (plural cloaks)

1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

3. (figuratively)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

   No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

4. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

Derived terms

• cloak and dagger

Translations

See also

• burnoose, burnous, burnouse
• domino costume

Verb

cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)

1. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, hide or conceal.
3. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

   The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

Derived terms

• cloaking device

Translations

English

Etymology 1

1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.

More at blee, fold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?s/, /bla?z/
• Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z

Noun

blouse (plural blouses)

1. (fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
2. (fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
3. (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
4. (India) A short garment worn under a sari.

Synonyms

• bodice (also used for undershirts)

Hyponyms

• Watteau bodice

Derived terms

• overblouse
• underblouse

Descendants

• ? Gujarati: ?????? (bl?ujha)
• ? Japanese: ???? (burausu), ???? (bur?zu)
• ? Korean: ???? (beullauseu)

Translations

Verb

blouse (third-person singular simple present blouses, present participle blousing, simple past and past participle bloused)

1. To hang a garment in loose folds.
2. (military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
   • 1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311

     An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail to blouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked. […] "

Antonyms

• (military): unblouse

Derived terms

• deblouse
• unblouse

Etymology 2

Noun

blouse (plural blouses)

1. Alternative form of blouze
2. Alternative form of blowess
3. Alternative form of blowze

Derived terms

• blousy

Anagrams

• Belous, Lobues, besoul, boules, obelus

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blus/
• Hyphenation: blou?se
• Rhymes: -us

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses, diminutive blouseje n)

1. Alternative spelling of bloes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bluz/

Etymology 1

1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:

• French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from Old High German bl?z (“naked, bare”) (German bloß (“bare”))
• A conflation of the aforementioned and French bliaud, bliaut (a kind of smock or robe, whence English bliaus, bliaut), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *bl?fald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from *bl?u (“coloured, bright”) + *fald (“crease, fold”). More at blee, fold, and bliaut.
• From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

1. uniform or coat with buttons down the front

   blouse d'hôpital — hospital gown

Related terms

• blousard
• blouson

Descendants

Etymology 2

belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17^th century and its origin is unknown.

Alternative forms

• belouse, belouzes

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

1. (archaic) any one of the holes on a billiards table

Descendants

• ? German: Blouse, Bluse
• ? Russian: ????? (lúza)

Etymology 3

Verb

blouse

1. first-person singular present indicative of blouser
2. third-person singular present indicative of blouser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
5. second-person singular imperative of blouser

Further reading

• “blouse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• boules

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

1. (Jersey) smock

Synonyms

• c'mînsole dé molleton