blouse

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
blouse/blaʊz/

▶noun

• 1 a woman's upper garment resembling a shirt.

• 2 a loose smock or tunic of a type formerly worn by peasants and manual workers.

• 3 a type of jacket worn as part of military uniform.

▶verb make (a garment) hang in loose folds.

– phrases
big girl's blouse Brit. informal a weak, cowardly, or oversensitive man.

– origin C19: from Fr., of unknown origin.