Meaning of bloused | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing a blouse.

not-comparable

Examples

“Whatever you do, when a good number⟳ has been recommended to you, never, by any chance, attempt⟳ to go yourself to the donkey-shed, but send⟳ for the animal; else you will be assailed, and tossed to and fro for an hour, by the red-capped, blue-bloused attendant, pushed and jostled, and stunned with their exclamations and attempts to address you in English, until a police officer comes to your rescue⟳, recommends a particular animal, and away you go—having previously made a bargain to pay⟳, either by the hour or according to distance.”

“There was a bloused and bearded Frenchman or two; but the majority were, as was to have⟳ been expected, the oppressed, the starved, the untaught, the despairing, the insane;[…].”

“Nine-tenths of Englishmen hurrying through France find⟳ the monotony dreary, the same unfenced, wide-spreading sketches of land⟳, the same bloused and sabotted peasantry, the same poplars on the road sides, and lime trees in the public places of the towns.”

“As we marched by, and these citizen-soldiers, who were fresh in their picturesque zoo-zoo uniforms, or as they are sometimes called, “Night-drawers Cadets,” the dirty-looking old blue-bloused veterans chaffed them most unmercifully.”

“She indicated Elise, bloused and jeaned, sitting cross-legged on the floor by the fire.”

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