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noun

Rouge n.

(Chem.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.

A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.

adjective

Rouge adj. Red. (R.)

Rouge et noir, a game at cards in which persons play against the owner of the bank; so called because the table around which the players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited.

verb

Rouge v. t. To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.

Rouge v. i. (past & past part. rouged; pres. part. rouging) To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.

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Etymology of 'Rouge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rouge" Quotes from Famous Books

... received a young woman who smoked cigarettes, and asked her hostess for rouge, and the publican's wife received a countess. Mrs. Smith, of Clapham, who had brought up her children in the strictest propriety, welcomed as play-mates for her dears, whom she had kept away from the contaminating ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... the Concert Rouge. Those were the happy days when there were no frills; when the price of admission was charged with what you drank; when Saint-Saens accompanied his "Samson and Delilah" with an imaginary flute obligato on a walking-stick; when Massenet, with his librettist, Henri Cain, dozed quietly through the ...

— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... Balzac was again away from Paris, this time taking up his abode in Nemours, where he describes himself as living alone in a tent in the depths of the earth, subsisting on coffee, and working day and night at "La Peau de Chagrin," with "L'Auberge Rouge," which he was writing for the Revue de Paris, as ...

— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars

... the town one day; he had come to confer with Joffre, Sir John French, Monsieur Poincare, and Mr. Churchill, at a meeting held at the Chapeau Rouge Hotel. Rather too many valuable men in one room, I thought—especially with so many spies about! Three men in English officers' uniforms were found to be Germans the other day and taken out ...

— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... between them they turned Meg into a fine lady. They crimped and curled her hair, they polished her neck and arms with some fragrant powder, touched her lips with coralline salve to make them redder, and Hortense would have added 'a soupcon of rouge', if Meg had not rebelled. They laced her into a sky-blue dress, which was so tight she could hardly breathe and so low in the neck that modest Meg blushed at herself in the mirror. A set of silver filagree ...

— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

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