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
Maples blaze rouge whilst bigtooth aspens and mountain-ash trees sprinkle yellow.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 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
She reminded me of a great white turtle with just a dash of rouge and a touch of eye shadow.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
You will, if we ever have any bonnets rouges in America.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 by Various
Don’t let the rouged cheeks and Shirley Temple curls fool you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
This year’s offering, Persephone’s Punch, is rouged up with both pomegranate and scarlet Fiero, an aperitivo that complements it nicely.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
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
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
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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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"Not rouging, Gran, I assure you," I said lightly.
From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan
The ladies were busy chattering and rouging their lips when the bill was presented.
From Castles in the Air by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The new numbers appear to me admirable, and full of life and blood—whatever we may say to the thick rouging and extravagance of gesture.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
He looked around into her face—in spite of bistre and powder, and the faint rouging on her lips, it had a queer, unholy, touching beauty.
From Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy
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