rouged

Example Sentences

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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 is rouged, painted, and plastered with makeup.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett