middy blouse

American  

noun

1. any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.

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middy blouse British  

noun

1. a blouse with a sailor collar, worn by women and children, esp formerly

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Etymology

Origin of middy blouse

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Republican write-in" and the "Democratic shoo-in," Dancer Mitzi Gaynor peered down her middy blouse and asked: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

From Time Magazine Archive

Wearing a navy blue skirt and white middy blouse, and carrying a red scarf in her hand, she stepped before newsmen at Cape Canaveral after her husband's space voyage was over.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, in her middy blouse with the sailor bow tie, she still looked like a high school girl.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

She was wearing the white middy blouse I’d seen her in the first time we met.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

So on Friday I put on my middy blouse which, more than any of my clothes, made me feel like a Marjorie, and my mother called for rickshas.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz