rouged

Example Sentences

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Her ensemble is accented with abundant gold jewelry and a variety of red splashes in wrist- and hair-bows, brightly rouged cheeks and a feathered headdress.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

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

This year’s offering, Persephone’s Punch, is rouged up with both pomegranate and scarlet Fiero, an aperitivo that complements it nicely.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

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

She was rouged heavily and wore a feather boa.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith