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rouge

[roozh] / ruʒ /


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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

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

Baroness Steinheil's first request was for a mirror, in front of which she immediately set about powdering & rouging.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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