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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rouge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup
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Examples
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Evening sunlight slanted through windows and among columns, filtered to a domed ceiling, brought forth out of dusk, remote upon gold and blue, the Twelve Apostles and Christ Lord of All. At first he was afraid to look, dreading less the gaping glaring hideousness he had last seen -- that was only what violent death wrought -- than the kind of rouged doll they made when Terran bodies lay in state.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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Her face is serene, her lips are red and her cheeks rouged.
Notice of Arrival Willard Spiegelman 2011
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Vreeland's very appearance reflected her mantra that beauty could sometimes be strange and even alarming: patent-black hair; long red-lacquered talons; a severely painted red mouth, and sometimes even rouged earlobes.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Diana Vreeland, History's Most Joyous Fashion Editor (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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Vreeland's very appearance reflected her mantra that beauty could sometimes be strange and even alarming: patent-black hair; long red-lacquered talons; a severely painted red mouth, and sometimes even rouged earlobes.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Diana Vreeland, History's Most Joyous Fashion Editor (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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Maybe a "rouged-rogue" is exactly what we need. lisa
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Today she rouged her cheeks with Spanish paper—something I have never seen her do, as her cheeks are pink anyway—blew me a kiss, and left.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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His single-minded aim is to escape being costumed forever in lace collar and rouged knees, forever five years old.
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Heck, even the spotlight got a laugh as it illuminated an empty Eisenhower Theater stage for a few silent, drama-freighted moments before one of the heavily jeweled and rouged members of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo tippytoed out, in his extra-large pointe shoes, for a shattering rendition of "The Dying Swan" that resurrected this weary solo from its legacy of self-important soppiness.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Divas infuse humor, character in dances Sarah Kaufman 2010
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Hanging from rouged lips, the Gauloise remains forever unlit;
Soir Bleu JP Reese 2011
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Today she rouged her cheeks with Spanish paper—something I have never seen her do, as her cheeks are pink anyway—blew me a kiss, and left.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
alexz commented on the word rouged
To get rouged means to:
buy a full fare ticket from Air Canada
and then discover that your flight has been downgraded to Air Canada's Rouge budget airline with zero frills and small seats. Which means you basically weren't given what you paid for.
circa 2014.
May 7, 2014
bilby commented on the word rouged
Hey, here we call it the Jetstar shuffle.
Jetstar is a low-rent subsidiary of Qantas.
May 7, 2014