rouged

Example Sentences

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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

But the message that’s sent when female performers cover their perfectly contoured cheekbones and rouged lips seems twice as significant, especially when they say they’re feminists.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2015

The candlelight accentuated her rouged cheeks and painted mouth.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy