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blouse

noun
🔊/blaʊz/
🔊/blaʊs/
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  1. a piece of clothing like a shirt, worn by women（女式）短上衣，衬衫
    Topics Clothes and Fashionb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • long-sleeved
    • short-sleeved
    • sleeveless
    • …
    verb + blouse
    • button
    • button up
    • unbutton
    • …
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    Word Originearly 19th cent. (denoting a belted loose garment worn by peasants): from French, of unknown origin.
Idioms
a big girl’s blouse
  1. (British English, informal) a weak man, who is not brave or confident懦弱的男人；胆小没自信的男人