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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

Some plates require a great deal of rouging; it then generally means that you must look to your sensitizer.

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.

Lady rouging herself: she holds a mirror and rouge-pot.—

From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Weigall, Arthur E. P. B.

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 McCutcheon, George Barr

Between that and rouging the ethical line seemed almost impalpable, and the spectre of her rigid New England ancestry rose reprovingly before her.

From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith