Definition of "bloused"

Whatever you do, when a good number has been recommended to you, never, by any chance, attempt to go yourself to the donkey-shed, but send for the animal; else you will be assailed, and tossed to and fro for an hour, by the red-capped, blue-bloused attendant, pushed and jostled, and stunned with their exclamations and attempts to address you in English, until a police officer comes to your rescue, recommends a particular animal, and away you go—having previously made a bargain to pay, either by the hour or according to distance.

1837, [Augustus] Granville, “Ems, or Bad-Ems”, in The Spas of Germany, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 518

There was a bloused and bearded Frenchman or two; but the majority were, as was to have been expected, the oppressed, the starved, the untaught, the despairing, the insane; […].

1850, [Charles Kingsley], “A Patriot’s Reward”, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 168

Nine-tenths of Englishmen hurrying through France find the monotony dreary, the same unfenced, wide-spreading sketches of land, the same bloused and sabotted peasantry, the same poplars on the road sides, and lime trees in the public places of the towns.

1852 January, Angus B. Reach, “A Look into the Landes”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, part I, number 278, London: Colburn & Co., […], page 81

As we marched by, and these citizen-soldiers, who were fresh in their picturesque zoo-zoo uniforms, or as they are sometimes called, “Night-drawers Cadets,” the dirty-looking old blue-bloused veterans chaffed them most unmercifully.

1898, J[oseph] O[rton] Kerbey, “Gettysburg—The Sharpshooters—A Council at Meade’s Headquarters—Is the Honor Due to Howard or Hancock?—The Charges of the Pennsylvania Reserves—Kilpatrick Under Fire—Good-By”, in Further Adventures of the Boy Spy in Dixie, Washington, D.C.: The National Tribune, page 354

She indicated Elise, bloused and jeaned, sitting cross-legged on the floor by the fire.

1984, David Storey, Present Times, Jonathan Cape, page 112