rouge

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

Adam Fournier, their bar director, describes their spirit-free rose champagne, containing rose petal, Sakura white tea, verjus rouge and "a smattering of other small components we force carbonate."

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023

Joel Embiid will wear red, white and blue in Paris next summer - not rouge, blanc and bleu.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 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

His mother’s maroon hair was fluffed high over her forehead; her cheekbones were red with rouge that had been spread nervously up to the eyeballs.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

These rouges are sold in powder, and also in cake or china pots; for the latter the rouge is mixed with a minute portion of solution of gum tragacanth.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse

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

A trio of heavily rouged soldiers cavorted amid the proceedings.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2015

She caught glimpses of feathers and crooked paper crowns, rose-hued cheeks and deeply rouged lips, gowns of rich red and gold velvet.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

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

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 Susan Warner

Between that and rouging the ethical line seemed almost impalpable, and the spectre of her rigid New England ancestry rose reprovingly before her.

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Edith Wharton

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