blouse
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In college, I found a treadle machine in an empty dorm room, oiled it and made a blouse and quilt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Malama Mulenga referred to the fugu as a ''maternity blouse'', Mwangala Imbula posted: ''Am coming to get that blouse'', while Master G wrote ''We love our blouse brothers''.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
The opening finds her futzing over the neckline of her inauguration day blouse before telling the tailors to slice into the fabric with scissors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
Usually, she liked wearing khaki pants, a simple blouse, and loafers.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
She pulls out a basic white blouse with bone buttons and a narrow, pointed collar.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
“I saw many girls whose clothing would previously have been reprimanded by the government—unveiled, wearing blouses and pants, with manicured nails,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The company has tried to offer more products beyond jeans — such as dresses, blouses and other items geared toward women — as well as modern riffs on old favorites like 501s.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Their 1998 “Stromboli” collection revolved around a Christian theme, a Marian procession, and dresses, tunics and blouses featuring Marian imagery.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
The character is very loosely based on Aldama, sporting the same flowy blouses, skinny jeans, heeled boots and all-business attitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Piles of matching blouses and skirts lie all over her bed.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
The men are variously clothed in bloused tops and tights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Where the small was just that in the chest, and ever so slightly too short in the arms, the medium bloused out a bit at the waist.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2015
Emanuel Ungaro's Moroccan striped minidresses are bloused at the hips with yarn belts and designed to be worn over red or green tights.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would see, not tuxedos and silk hats, but bloused men and girls in coarse sleeveless gowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
His trousers settled well on his hips and his white shirt bloused over his belt.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Failing to master synchronized heel pivots of marching drills or proper blousing of his pants, he received the most chits of any of his classmates and was punished repeatedly.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
Her eyes had something of their old-time sparkle as she reached inside the blousing front of her flannel shirt and laid in Mrs. Toomey’s hand a packet of crisp banknotes secured by bands of elastic.
From The Fighting Shepherdess by Lockhart, Caroline
And at the time when the front of every woman's waist fell far below her belt in a copiously blousing sag, Mrs. Marshall's trim tautness had in it something horrifying.
From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
