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blous⋅on

[blou-son, -zon, bloo-zohn, bloo-zon]
–noun
1. a woman's outer garment having a drawstring, belt, or similar closing, at or below the waist, which causes it to blouse.
–adjective
2. of or pertaining to such a garment, the style it exemplifies, or something considered to resemble this style, as a hairdo: a blouson dress; the blouson effect; a blouson bob.

Origin:
1900–05; < F, equiv. to blouse blouse + -on n. suffix
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blou·son   (blou'sŏn', blōō'zŏn')   
n.  A garment, such as a dress or shirt, with a fitted waistband over which material blouses.

[French, diminutive of blouse, blouse; see blouse.]
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