rouge1
[roozh]
- any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- a reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used for polishing metal, glass, etc.
- Canadian football.
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- to color with rouge.
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- to use rouge.
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Origin of rouge1
rouge2
[roozh]
- red; noting the red numbers in roulette.
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Compare noir.
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Examples from the Web for rouge
Contemporary Examples
No amount of rouge will ever camouflage rhetoric and sophistry.
Historical Examples
Her face was ghastly, save for the trace of rouge; her eyes were red-rimmed.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
Had she got the rouge a trifle brighter on one cheek than on the other?
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
Rouge was born in Silesia in 1813 and died in October, 1887.
The Works of Whittier, Volume IV (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon
From red that she had been, she was now ashen under her rouge.
The Lion's SkinRafael Sabatini
rouge
- a red powder, used as a cosmetic for adding redness to the cheeks
- short for jeweller's rouge
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- to apply rouge to
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Word Origin
C18: from French: red, from Latin rubeus
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Word Origin and History for rouge
n.
1753, in cosmetic sense, "blush," from French rouge "red coloring matter," noun use of adjective "red" (12c.), from Latin rubeus, related to ruber "red" (see red). Replaced native paint in this sense. The verb is attested from 1777. Related: Rouged; rouging. The same word had been borrowed from French in Middle English with the sense "red color; red" (early 15c.).
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