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
Joel Embiid will wear red, white and blue in Paris next summer - not rouge, blanc and bleu.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
Maples blaze rouge whilst bigtooth aspens and mountain-ash trees sprinkle yellow.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
Previous coronations have had historic roles such as the "rouge dragon pursuivant", "unicorn pursuivant" and carriers of the "golden spur" and the "white wand".
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2023
Her coconut-shell face had been heavily made up with blue eye shadow, rouge, and red lipstick.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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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
Those bonnets rouges are a symbol still worn by the figure of Marianne, the embodiment of France.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2017
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
She had not the big trust in the pantalons rouges when it came to those Yankees.
From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)
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
“I found her unfamiliar, rouged like a corpse, her tumid ankles peeking out, inflated and purple,” Rowbottom writes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
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
She is rouged, painted, and plastered with makeup.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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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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The ladies were busy chattering and rouging their lips when the bill was presented.
From Castles in the Air by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
The new numbers appear to me admirable, and full of life and blood—whatever we may say to the thick rouging and extravagance of gesture.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
Then she became suddenly serious, for she had come to the operation of rouging.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
The leading lady assumed an air of injured innocence, and left off rouging her cheeks to heighten the effect.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
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