ROUGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rouge mean? 

• ROUGE (noun)
  The noun ROUGE has 1 sense:

1. makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

  Familiarity information: ROUGE used as a noun is very rare.

• ROUGE (verb)
  The verb ROUGE has 1 sense:

1. redden by applying rouge to

  Familiarity information: ROUGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

blusher; paint; rouge

Hypernyms ("rouge" is a kind of...):

make-up; makeup; war paint (cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance)

Derivation:

rouge (redden by applying rouge to)

• ROUGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rouge    ... he / she / it rouges   
Past simple: rouged   
Past participle: rouged   
-ing form: rouging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Redden by applying rouge to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

she rouged her cheeks

Hypernyms (to "rouge" is one way to...):

make up (apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rouge (makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks)

 Context examples 

Nothing could be more becoming to your complexion than that ruffian's rouge.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“In what way do you mean? In the rouge way?” said Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If she would only wear rouge she would not be afraid of being seen; but last time I called, I observed the blinds were let down immediately.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

With vaseline upon one’s forehead, belladonna in one’s eyes, rouge over the cheek-bones, and crusts of beeswax round one’s lips, a very satisfying effect can be produced.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"My rouge won't come off." and Amy rubbed her brilliant cheek, and showed him her white glove with a sober simplicity that made him laugh outright.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“What the unmentionable to ears polite, do you think I want with rouge?” “No offence, sir,” said the Griffin; “we have it asked for by so many names, I thought it might be.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Vos doigts tremblent comme la feuille, et vos joues sont rouges: mais, rouges comme des cerises!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

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.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)