rouge
noun
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
rouged
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past participleof rouge.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof rouge.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
rougenounany of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
Example Sentences
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Her ensemble is accented with abundant gold jewelry and a variety of red splashes in wrist- and hair-bows, brightly rouged cheeks and a feathered headdress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
I remember him telling my brothers and me, after his father died, that he hadn’t been able to look into the open casket, because the morticians had rouged his father’s cheeks.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 17, 2017
Ronald Reagan, with his strange, molded, too-dark hair and rouged cheeks and permanent smile, was everything horrifying about the phrase “All-American”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2016
She would serve a ragout for dinner, after a long day at the textile factory, her lips still carefully rouged, her waist tightly cinched, always striving, always trying to escape the familiar.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2016
Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
