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A shirt that decided it had standing and ambitions beyond mere buttons.
means A loose-fitting upper garment, typically worn by women, gathered at the waist or shoulders and often softer and fuller than a plain shirt.
from From the French 'blouse,' a word that arrives in the early 19th century to name the loose smock worn by French workmen and peasants. Its own roots are genuinely murky — etymologists shrug. One popular notion ties it to Pelusium in Egypt, supposedly a source of blue cloth, but this is unproven folk speculation. What's solid is the journey: a humble workman's smock crossed the Channel, refined itself, and became a garment with airs.
- war origin
- Named from French for peasant smocks worn by laborers
- gender swap
- Once standard menswear before becoming coded feminine
- military roots
- Soldiers' loose tunics gave the word its name
- insult mode
- British slang 'big girl's blouse' means a wimp
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