Rouge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips.
  • n. A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass.
  • v. To put rouge onto: rouged her cheeks.
  • v. 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).
  • verb-intransitive. To use rouge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of a reddish pink colour.
  • n. Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
  • n. Any reddish pink colour.
  • n. A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored.
  • v. To apply rouge (makeup.)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. red.
  • n. A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
  • n. A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.
  • verb-intransitive. To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
  • v. To tint with rouge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Red: as in the French rouge croix, rouge et noir, etc.
  • n. Any red cosmetic or coloring for the skin.
  • n. A scarlet, bright-crimson, or dark-red polishing-powder (peroxid of iron, sometimes intermingled with black oxid) made by a variety of processes, and varying in color according to the mode of production.
  • To color (the skin, especially the cheeks) with rouge.
  • To cause to become red, as from blushing.
  • To use rouge, especially on the cheeks.
  • To become red; redden; blush.
  • n. A finely powdered red oxid of iron, or hematite (which see), generally mixed with a paste or glue and sold in sticks or in the form of powder.
  • n. In roulette, a bet that the color of the number will be red.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. redden by applying rouge to
  • n. makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
  • Verb Form
    rouged    rouges    rouging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    makeup    war paint   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    red    cosmetic    blush   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bruges   
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