Blouse, the French name for a loose, sacklike over-garment somewhat answering to the English smock-frock. France is pre-eminently the country of blouses, ordinarily blue, worn not only by the country-people, but by workmen in towns.
Blouse
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 239
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