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rouge

[roozh] / ruʒ /


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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

The first cultivated breast meat Crenn tasted was a bit mushy, she said, but the flavor reminded her of poulet rouge, a heritage breed from France.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2023

Regardless of how the tradition took hold, experts agree that cheese is rarely happily paired with vin rouge.

From Salon Feb. 20, 2023

His hair is mussed, his clothes all tangled, and there’s lip rouge on his face.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

"Do you s'pose Cora Stanton will be marked off in personal appearance 'cause she rouges and uses a lipstick?" asked Gyp, with a sly glance toward Isobel, who turned fiery red.

From Highacres by Harriet Roosevelt Richards

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

A trio of heavily rouged soldiers cavorted amid the proceedings.

From New York Times Oct. 19, 2015

The mmuo he pointed to was small; its carved wooden face had angular, pretty features and rouged lips.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Baroness Steinheil's first request was for a mirror, in front of which she immediately set about powdering & rouging.

From Time Magazine Archive

This playful allusion to the rouging decreed by the Princess had the double design of excusing her painting and of diverting the Doctor from his tender-hearted seriousness.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

In spite of all this, practice in rouging might have helped her a little, but she had had no practice.

From Her Weight in Gold by George Barr McCutcheon

Some plates require a great deal of rouging; it then generally means that you must look to your sensitizer.

From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney

"Not rouging, Gran, I assure you," I said lightly.

From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan




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