different between coat vs blouse
coat
English
Alternative forms
- cote (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kutt? (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Ancient Greek ?????? (beûdos, “woman's attire”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ko?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)
- (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.Wp
- (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp
- (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
- (obsolete) A petticoat.
- a child in coats
- The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
- Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint
- She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
- A coat of arms.Wp
- A coat card.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
- Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: koto
Translations
Verb
coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)
- (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.
- (transitive) To cover like a coat.
- (transitive, archaic) To clothe.
Translations
Anagrams
- ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco
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blouse
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)
- (fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
- (fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
- (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
- (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)
- To hang a garment in loose folds.
- (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. […] "
- 1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311
Antonyms
- (military): unblouse
Derived terms
- deblouse
- unblouse
Etymology 2
Noun
blouse (plural blouses)
- Alternative form of blouze
- Alternative form of blowess
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 17th century and its origin is unknown.
Alternative forms
- belouse, belouzes
Noun
blouse f (plural blouses)
- (archaic) any one of the holes on a billiards table
Descendants
- ? German: Blouse, Bluse
- ? Russian: ????? (lúza)
Etymology 3
Verb
blouse
- first-person singular present indicative of blouser
- third-person singular present indicative of blouser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of blouser
- 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)
- (Jersey) smock
Synonyms
- c'mînsole dé molleton
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