rouge
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I scooped up a pét-nat rouge, a rosé and a red blend on my way out of town at Yakima’s Apple Valley Emporium, a combination skateboard and bottle shop.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
Adam Fournier, their bar director, describes their spirit-free rose champagne, containing rose petal, Sakura white tea, verjus rouge and "a smattering of other small components we force carbonate."
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2023
Joel Embiid will wear red, white and blue in Paris next summer - not rouge, blanc and bleu.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
The first cultivated breast meat Crenn tasted was a bit mushy, she said, but the flavor reminded her of poulet rouge, a heritage breed from France.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Powder and rouge cover one side of her face; the other side, bare, looks green.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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They gather flowers and spread them at the door; Butterfly rouges her cheeks and puts on the wedding garments she wore the night she and the lieutenant fell in love.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
In something of an operatic mad scene, he visits a barber who dyes his hair, powders him with ghost-white makeup and rouges his cheeks.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
France witnessed the emergence of "les bonnets rouges" - a protest movement with its roots in Brittany, with its symbol of red hats taken from an earlier tax revolt.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2013
The man who married Trotsky's secretary made his most interesting and rebellious characters girls: the piratical sisters, the Amazons, who "rattle our sabres to frighten the neighbours", ululate ferociously beneath their bonnets rouges.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2010
Should the French threaten to withdraw, should they in reality withdraw, still he would not abdicate, not with Confederate veterans to replace the pantalons rouges.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Don’t let the rouged cheeks and Shirley Temple curls fool you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
The airbrushing was so over-the-top, the eyes so blue, the lips so rouged, that he looked like a porcelain doll.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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
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Baroness Steinheil's first request was for a mirror, in front of which she immediately set about powdering & rouging.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This playful allusion to the rouging decreed by the Princess had the double design of excusing her painting and of diverting the Doctor from his tender-hearted seriousness.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
In spite of all this, practice in rouging might have helped her a little, but she had had no practice.
From Her Weight in Gold by George Barr McCutcheon
"Not rouging, Gran, I assure you," I said lightly.
From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan
To begin, I want you to stop rouging your lips.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
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