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Yes. The word blouse is a Scrabble US word. The word blouse is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (3 found)

BLOUSE,BOULES,OBELUS,

5-letter words (13 found)

BLUES,BOLES,BOLUS,BOULE,BOUSE,BULSE,EUSOL,LESBO,LOBES,LOBUS,LOUSE,LUBES,OUSEL,

4-letter words (19 found)

BELS,BLUE,BOLE,LOBE,LOBS,LOSE,LOUS,LUBE,LUES,OBES,OLES,SLEB,SLOB,SLOE,SLUB,SLUE,SOLE,SOUL,ULES,

3-letter words (24 found)

BEL,BES,BOS,BUS,ELS,LES,LEU,LOB,LOS,LOU,OBE,OBS,OES,OLE,OSE,OUS,SEL,SOB,SOL,SOU,SUB,SUE,ULE,USE,

2-letter words (11 found)

BE,BO,EL,ES,LO,OB,OE,OS,OU,SO,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 71 words from blouse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of blouse

blouse

Etymology 1

1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.

More at blee, fold.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blaʊs/, /blaʊz/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /bluːz/
  • Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz

Noun

blouse (plural blouses)

  1. (fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
  2. (fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
  3. (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
  4. (India, Bangladesh) A short garment worn under a sari.
Synonyms
  • bodice (also used for undershirts)
Hyponyms
  • Watteau bodice
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)
  • → Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)
  • → Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)
  • → Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)
  • → Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)
Translations

Verb

blouse (third-person singular simple present blouses, present participle blousing, simple past and past participle bloused)

  1. To hang a garment in loose folds.
  2. (military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "military"): unblouse
Derived terms
  • deblouse
  • unblouse

Etymology 2

Noun

blouse (plural blouses)

  1. Alternative form of blouze
  2. Alternative form of blowess
  3. Alternative form of blowze
Derived terms
  • blousy

References

Anagrams

  • Belous, Lobues, besoul, boules, obelus

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blus/
  • Hyphenation: blou‧se
  • Rhymes: -us

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses, diminutive blouseje n)

  1. Alternative spelling of bloes

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bluz/

Etymology 1

1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:

  • 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”))
  • 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.
  • From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

  1. uniform or coat with buttons down the front
    blouse d’hôpital ― hospital gown
Derived terms
  • blouses blanches
Related terms
  • blousard
  • blouson
Descendants

Etymology 2

belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17th century and its origin is unknown.

Alternative forms

  • belouse, belouzes

Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

  1. (archaic) any one of the holes on a billiards table
Descendants
  • → German: Blouse, Bluse
  • → Russian: лу́за (lúza)

Etymology 3

Verb

blouse

  1. inflection of blouser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “blouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • boules

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

blouse f (plural blouses)

  1. (Jersey) smock

Synonyms

  • c'mînsole dé molleton

Source: wiktionary.org