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

The most priceless is Mr. Mixon as the lascivious Count, his face powdered and rouged into an expression of almost permanent surprise and consternation.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2012

She was rouged heavily and wore a feather boa.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith