different between suit vs blouse

English

Etymology

From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for sec?ta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s(j)u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s(j)ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: soot (in some dialects)

Noun

suit (plural suits)

1. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

2. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
3. (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

4. A full set of armour.
5. (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

6. (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
7. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
   • 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)

     Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
     Till this funereal web my labors end.

8. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
9. The full set of sails required for a ship.
11. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
    • 1785, William Cowper, The Task

      To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
      Her mingled suits and sequences.

12. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things

    Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

13. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
14. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• suite

Translations

See also

References

• suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)

1. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
2. (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

3. (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
   • c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock

     Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
4. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
5. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

6. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)

   Synonyms: agree, match, answer

Derived terms

• suited and booted
• suit up
• suit yourself
• unsuited

Translations

Anagrams

• ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?i/
• Rhymes: -?i
• Homophone: suis

Verb

suit

1. third-person singular present indicative of suivre

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?su.it/, [?s?u?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?su.it/, [?su?it?]

Verb

suit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of su?

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English suit.

Noun

suit m (plural suits)

1. (Jersey) suit (of clothes)

Synonyms

• fa

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