rouged

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rouge

(ro͞ozh)

1. A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips.

2. A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass.

v. rouged, roug·ing, roug·es

v.tr.

1. To put rouge onto: rouged her cheeks.

2. To color or prettify as if with a facial cosmetic: "Their job is to rouge up the war ... to turn the horror into cheering press releases" (Richard Corliss).

v.intr.

To use rouge.

[French, from Old French, red, from Latin rubeus; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]

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rouged

(ruːʒd)

adj

(Clothing & Fashion) having rouge applied

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Adj.

rouged - marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup; "freshly rouged lips"; "rouged cheeks"

painted - having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces"

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There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.

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In three carriages involved among the munition carts, closely squeezed together, sat women with rouged faces, dressed in glaring colors, who were shouting something in shrill voices.