blouse – French noun declension

Noun: blouse
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	blouse
Plural f	blouses

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like blouse

polémochorie, kératotomie, farigoule, compréhension, palestre, abnégation, hyperuricémie, psychométrie, minicassette, piézo-électricité, potabilité, aromathérapie, conjugalité, conjugaison, cohésion, obscurité, bacillose, cohæsion, aponévrotomie, sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. 1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:
2. * French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from Old High German blōz (“naked, bare”) (German bloß (“bare”))
3. * 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 *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from *blīu (“coloured, bright”) + *fald (“crease, fold”). More at English blee, fold, and bliaut.
4. * From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages. See: French Nouns 'blousse', French Nouns 'bliaud', English Nouns 'bliaus', English Nouns 'blee'.

Verbs referencing "blouse"

English Nouns blouse, Italian Nouns blusa, Icelandic Nouns blússa, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns bluse, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bluse, German Nouns Bluse, Hungarian Nouns blúz, Dutch Nouns bloes, Romanian Nouns bluză, Russian Nouns блуза, Ukrainian Nouns блуза, Asturian Nouns brusa, Catalan Nouns brusa, Ukrainian Nouns блюза, Russian Nouns луза.

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