rouge
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I scooped up a pét-nat rouge, a rosé and a red blend on my way out of town at Yakima’s Apple Valley Emporium, a combination skateboard and bottle shop.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
Joel Embiid will wear red, white and blue in Paris next summer - not rouge, blanc and bleu.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
Regardless of how the tradition took hold, experts agree that cheese is rarely happily paired with vin rouge.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023
Previous coronations have had historic roles such as the "rouge dragon pursuivant", "unicorn pursuivant" and carriers of the "golden spur" and the "white wand".
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2023
Layer after layer of Belle-powder and rouge are applied to my cheeks and eyes.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
At his first ball at court he wore a powdered cadogan and danced in talons rouges: at his last he lolled with bald head against a doorway, in varnished boots and starched cravat.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
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
In performance and in paintings, Monkman, 57, morphs into Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, strapping and strong-jawed, lipsticked and rouged, striding on stilettos through epic landscapes that allude to works by 19th-century Romantics.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
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
A blush deepened the color in her rouged cheeks.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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Baroness Steinheil's first request was for a mirror, in front of which she immediately set about powdering & rouging.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I saw the ship, the coquette rouging herself, and the poor working-woman weeding in the fields.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
The warm breeze was softly rubbing Faith's cheek with its rouging fingers, and her mother gazed—nor could give one look to humming-birds or roses.
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan
I again draw your attention to the rouging; here is where any artistic feeling you may possess will come into play with taste and patience.
From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.
They were fond of rouging their faces, especially the lips, and the eye was a feature to which much time and art were given.
From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby
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