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| why just one blouse??; last possible __ouse rhyme possible? | |
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| bachophile | Jun 9 2006, 06:48 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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![]() Blouse 1828, from Fr., "workman's or peasant's smock" (1788), origin unknown. Perhaps akin to Prov. (lano) blouso "short (wool)." Another suggestion is that it is from M.L. pelusia, from Pelusium, a city in Upper Egypt, supposedly a clothing manufacturing center in the Middle Ages. |
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