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
Instead of wearing lipstick or rouge, I darken my eyebrows.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 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
Mami has also put some of her lipstick and rouge on me and sprayed hair spray in my hair to make me feel more grown-up.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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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
It is, however, found in the rest of Europe, the best parallel being L'Homme aux dents rouges, in Bladé, Agenais, p.
From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane
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
She was rouged heavily and wore a feather boa.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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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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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
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
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
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
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