Example Sentences

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They gather flowers and spread them at the door; Butterfly rouges her cheeks and puts on the wedding garments she wore the night she and the lieutenant fell in love.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024

In something of an operatic mad scene, he visits a barber who dyes his hair, powders him with ghost-white makeup and rouges his cheeks.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

Those bonnets rouges are a symbol still worn by the figure of Marianne, the embodiment of France.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2017

The man who married Trotsky's secretary made his most interesting and rebellious characters girls: the piratical sisters, the Amazons, who "rattle our sabres to frighten the neighbours", ululate ferociously beneath their bonnets rouges.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2010

And, when one thinks of the Swedish aristocrat, one almost says, as Talleyrand said of the talons rouges, 'when the old order changes, much of the charm of life will disappear.'

From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis