What's the difference between blouse and bouse?

Blouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (2) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
  • (3) In Mad Max: Fury Road , she wears engine oil as makeup and bandages as a blouse.
  • (4) Police said the attack left the woman with a hole the size of quarter in her blouse but she declined medical attention and sustained no injuries.
  • (5) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.
  • (6) Theresa May will recall her habit of dancing to Abba’s Dancing Queen in a pair of flared trousers and a yellow blouse with “huge voluminous sleeves” during a guest appearance on Desert Island Discs .
  • (7) The fitness maven looked magnificent in a see-through black blouse under a fitted gold jacket.
  • (8) In an airy white blouse, art gallery owner Dasha Zhukova poses serenely on a chair, in a photograph taken for a Russian fashion website.
  • (9) The style even included high-collared blouses with "ties" that were inch-wide strips of material that clipped around the neck and were often embellished with a single fabric flower.
  • (10) Children had no clear preferences for males and preferred the female in the blouse and skirt.
  • (11) I bought a casual gray business suit jacket and skirt with a white blouse and black tights.
  • (12) The flower in the boy's hair and the blouse coming off his shoulders I think signify that the boy is a male prostitute.
  • (13) Downstairs a small stage spans the width of the room, replete with velvet curtains and disco ball – close the curtains and it transforms into a fitting room where you can try on playful womenswear like blouses with hexagon-shaped puff-sleeves and asymmetrical tulip skirts.
  • (14) Facing taunts and jeers, Chimbalanga, wearing a woman's blouse, and Monjeza appeared in court to answer three charges of unnatural practices between males and gross indecency.
  • (15) Even after the illness, Bauby's wandering left eye comes to rest on naked, sun-kissed legs, gaping blouses and a pair of full lips pursed in a blown kiss.
  • (16) Perhaps unsurprisingly, May, by her own admission, was not a rebellious child and the only outrageous element of her life growing up in the 70s appears to have been her wardrobe choices: “Flared trousers and … a yellow blouse that had huge voluminous sleeves”.
  • (17) Sitting on a plump hotel sofa in a black skirt, cream blouse and black bow tie, she resembles a spiffy doll; when special emphasis is required, she brushes aside her platinum hair and widens the lamplight eyes that have earned her comparisons with Bette Davis .
  • (18) The train skirts the main Jewish ultra-orthodox enclaves of the city, where stones are thrown at cars breaking the sabbath prohibition and women are instructed to wear modest dress (“closed blouse, with long sleeves, long skirt – no trousers, no tight-fitting clothes,” according to the text of wall posters), and up to French Hill, the site of the first post-1967 Jewish settlement across the green line and later, of numerous bus bombings carried out by Palestinian militants.
  • (19) My mother used to wear this blouse and now I am wearing it.” She places more objects gently in the box.
  • (20) 9 patients with typical textile dermatitis were found to be allergic to dark polyester blouses.

Bouse


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
  • (n.) Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.

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