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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

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

I know this because some time ago, maybe a year ago, maybe two, maybe ten, I tried to talk to a child with rouge on his cheeks and eyes smeared black.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

No, they were as careful of their crooks as we of our rouges.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

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

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

Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When, in her age and ugliness, she would no longer look in a glass, it is said they used to amuse themselves with powdering her cheeks, and rouging her nose.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

Ah! and then about the handwriting of hers that I had to imitate, and the dying my hair, and rouging, to make the transformation complete?

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

I again draw your attention to the rouging; here is where any artistic feeling you may possess will come into play with taste and patience.

From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney

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

From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney




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