blouse

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈblaʊ̯z/
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• General-American: /ˈblaʊ̯s/
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• /ˈblɐʊ̯s/ Canada, Canadian raising
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• /ˈblɜʊ̯s/ Canada, Canadian raising
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• /ˈblʌʊ̯s/ Canada, Canadian raising
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• /ˈbləʊ̯s/ Canada, Canadian raising
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• /ˈblæʊ̯z/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australian, New Zealand
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• /ˈblæʊ̯s/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australian, New Zealand
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• /ˈblaːz/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
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• /ˈblaːs/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
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• Northumbria: /ˈbluːz/
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• rhymes with -aʊs
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• rhymes with -aʊz
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• CMU ARPABET: B L AW1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more. More at blee, fold.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bloes — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Western Apache: ikaʼíí — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Arabic: بَلُوزَة (balūza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Arabic: بْلُوزَة (blūza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Belarusian: блу́зка (blúzka) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Belarusian: блу́за (blúza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Bulgarian: блу́за (blúza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Chinese Mandarin: 女襯衫 /女衬衫 (nǚ chènshān) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Czech: blůza — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Czech: halenka — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Dutch: blouse — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Dutch: bloes — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Esperanto: bluzo — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Finnish: paitapusero — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Finnish: paita — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• French: chemisier — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• French: corsage — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Galician: blusa — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Galician: chambra — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• German: Bluse — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Greek: μπλούζα (bloúza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Hungarian: blúz — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Ido: bluzo — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Ido: korsajo — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Indonesian: blus — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Italian: camicia — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Italian: blusa — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Italian: camicetta — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Japanese: ブラウス (burausu) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Kabuverdianu: buluza — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Kabuverdianu: bluza — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Kazakh: әйел кәзекейі (äiel käzekeiı) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Kyrgyz: блу́зка (blúzka) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Latin: supparum — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Latin: pēlūsia — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Lithuanian: palaidinė — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Low German: Bluus — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Luxembourgish: Blus — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Macedonian: блуза (bluza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Norwegian Bokmål: bluse — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bluse — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Persian: بلوز (bluz) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Persian: شومیز (šomiz) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Polish: bluzka — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Polish: bluza — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Portuguese: blusa — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Romanian: bluză — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Russian: блу́зка (blúzka) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Russian: блу́за (blúza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Rwanda-Rundi: ikizibaho — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Spanish: blusa — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Swedish: blus — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Tagalog: blusa — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Tamil: பிளவுஸ் (piḷavus) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Tamil: ரவிக்கை (ravikkai) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Turkish: bluz — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Turkmen: köýnek — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Ukrainian: блу́зка (blúzka) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Ukrainian: блу́за (blúza) — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Venetan: bluxa — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Walloon: tchimijhî — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Walloon: coirsaedje — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Walloon: blouze — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Walloon: taeye — an outer garment, usually loose, that is similar to a shirt
• Chinese Mandarin: 工作罩衫 — military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket
• Finnish: asetakki — military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket
• Italian: camisaccio — military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket
• Polish: bluza — military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket
• Portuguese: blusão — military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket
• Russian: гимнастёрка (gimnastjórka) — military: a loose-fitting uniform jacket