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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

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

The Bronchettes, no longer duty-bound to cheer and serve up those reedy, screechy screams, started dancing away with abandon, their faces fresh and unvarnished by lipstick or rouge powder.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

Not that I'd recommend you any of their vinegar rouges, or ineffaceable blooms, or anything of that kind.

From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Don’t let the rouged cheeks and Shirley Temple curls fool you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

The airbrushing was so over-the-top, the eyes so blue, the lips so rouged, that he looked like a porcelain doll.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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

The apartment was warm, the air rouged with cinnamon and fir.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan

Ah! and then about the handwriting of hers that I had to imitate, and the dying my hair, and rouging, to make the transformation complete?

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

I saw the ship, the coquette rouging herself, and the poor working-woman weeding in the fields.

From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

Lady rouging herself: she holds a mirror and rouge-pot.—

From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Arthur E. P. B. Weigall


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