different between gown vs blouse

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman gune, goune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”), from Ancient Greek ????? (goúna, “coarse garment”), of unknown origin. Perhaps from a Balkan or Apennine language. Alternatively, perhaps from Scythian, from Proto-Iranian *gawnám (“fur”) (compare Younger Avestan ????????????????????? (gaona, “body hair”) and Ossetian ???? (?un)).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

Pronunciation

• enPR: goun, IPA^(key): /?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

gown (plural gowns)

1. A loose, flowing upper garment.
2. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
3. The official robe of certain professionals and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
   1. The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
4. (by metonymy) The university community.

   In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.

5. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
6. Any sort of dress or garb.
7. The robe worn by a surgeon.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gown (third-person singular simple present gowns, present participle gowning, simple past and past participle gowned)

1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

References

Anagrams

• Wong, wong

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