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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Don’t let the rouged cheeks and Shirley Temple curls fool you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
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
The most priceless is Mr. Mixon as the lascivious Count, his face powdered and rouged into an expression of almost permanent surprise and consternation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2012
The candlelight accentuated her rouged cheeks and painted mouth.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
