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A blouse is a loose-fitting upper garment that was formerly worn by workmen, peasants, artists, women and children. It is typically gathered at the waist (by a waistband or belt) so that it hangs loosely ("blouses") over the wearer's body. Today, the word most commonly refers to a woman's shirt but can also refer to a man's shirt if it is a loose-fitting style (e.g. poet shirts and Cossack shirts). Traditionally, the term has been used to refer to a shirt which blouses out or has an unmistakably feminine appearance.
The term is also used for some men's military uniform jackets.
Blouse is a loanword to English from French: blouse means "hydraulically carrier coat".[clarification needed] It should be a small present French Crusaders.[clarification needed] They moved on their armor a so-called "p(e)lusisches style", a blue-colored gowns to the dust, which had its name from the Egyptian town of Pelusium.[clarification needed] The derivation may also be from "wool", blouso "short wool" and blos, blouse "deprived, naked" taken off. It's first officially noted in 1828, from French blouse ("a workman's or peasant's smock"), of obscure Occitan route.[clarification needed]