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
In performance and in paintings, Monkman, 57, morphs into Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, strapping and strong-jawed, lipsticked and rouged, striding on stilettos through epic landscapes that allude to works by 19th-century Romantics.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
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
Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
