blousey

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English

Adjective

blousey

  1. Alternative form of blousy.
    • 1995, Patricia Hills, “May Stevens: Painting History as Lived Feminist Experience”, in Patricia M Burnham, Lucretia Hoover Giese, editors, Redefining American History Painting, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part III (Didactic Intent), page 328:
      The partially completed painting already included a vignette of the heads of Alice and her two siblings, from the photograph in Two Women, flatly painted in two colors, and the standing figure of Alice, in a blousey dress and a large hat, who with the faint modeling appears like a dimming memory.
    • 1999 January, Richard Lyons, chapter 11, in The Edge of Things, Midlothian, Va.: Van Neste Books, →ISBN, page 75:
      She thinks of a child, an almost frail, very slender girl who wears lacey, blousey dresses, a wide bow around her waist, little white socks and white patent leather shoes.
    • 2016, Blaize Clement, John Clement, The Cat Sitter and the Canary (A Dixie Hemingway Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 29:
      She wore taupe jodhpurs and a white blousey dress shirt with rolled sleeves, and even at this distance, buried in pillows and peering through the ropes of the hammock, I could see the glitter of a diamond tennis bracelet on her wrist, along with matching diamond pendants hanging from her ears.