rouge
noun
any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
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
France witnessed the emergence of "les bonnets rouges" - a protest movement with its roots in Brittany, with its symbol of red hats taken from an earlier tax revolt.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2013
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
She rouges, and, in short, is a fine lady, without fancy or sensibility.
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
