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

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

With her teeth extravagantly capped, her cheeks lavishly rouged and her eyes ringed with bruiselike shadows, Davis’s Ma Rainey is a terrifying, transfixing figure: domineering, mercurial and deeply wounded.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2020

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

The apartment was warm, the air rouged with cinnamon and fir.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson