Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense rouges, present participle rouging, past tense, past participle rouged
1. uncountable noun
Rouge is a red powder or cream which you can put on your cheeks in order to give them more colour.
[old-fashioned]
2. verb
If someone rouges their cheeks or lips, they put red powder or cream on them to give them more colour.
Florentine women rouged their earlobes. [VERB noun]
She had curly black hair and rouged cheeks. [VERB-ed]
rouge in British English
(ruːʒ)
noun
1.
a red powder, used as a cosmetic for adding redness to the cheeks
2. short for jeweller's rouge
verb(transitive)
3.
to apply rouge to
Word origin
C18: from French: red, from Latin rubeus
rouge in American English1
(ruʒ)
noun
1.
any of various reddish cosmetics in powder, paste, or liquid form, esp. a red or reddish cream, for adding color to the cheeks or lips: a cosmetic used esp. formerly
see also blusher (sense 2)
2.
a reddish powder, mainly ferric oxide, for polishing jewelry, metal, etc.
verb transitiveWord forms: rouged or ˈrouging
3.
to color with rouge
verb intransitive
4.
to use cosmetic rouge
Word origin
Fr, red, rouge < L rubeus: see Ruby
rouge in American English2
(ruʒ)
noun
1.
in Canadian football, the scoring of a point by the team that is punting when the receiving team takes the ball behind the goal line and does not run it back into the field of play
verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: rouged or ˈrouging
2.
to carry out or cause to carry out a rouge
Word origin
orig. slang term at Eton, a scrimmage < ?
Examples of 'rouge' in a sentence
rouge
Red patches flushed up Brent's cheeks as if death the invisible man was dabbing rouge there.
Sillitoe, Alan THE OPEN DOOR (2002)
They will, she informs me with a grin, be painting the town a fabulous shade of rouge.
Alex George LOVE YOU MADLY (2002)
A halo of fat orange curls, orange lips and fingernails, rosy apples of rouge, bright green eyelids, and a hairy coat of rainbow shades.
Christina Jones TICKLED PINK (2002)
Its face was chalk white with lurid spots of rouge on the cheekbones.
Maupin, Armistead TALES OF THE CITY (2002)
All related terms of 'rouge'
vin rouge
See red wine
Baton Rouge
the capital of Louisiana , in the SE part on the Mississippi River . Pop: 225 090 (2003 est)
Khmer Rouge
the Kampuchean communist party, which seized power (1975) in a civil war: in exile since 1979, dispersed in 1999
Rouge Croix
a pursuivant at the English college of arms
bonnet rouge
a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
Rouge Dragon
a pursuivant at the English college of arms
lanterne rouge
a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
jeweller's rouge
a finely powdered form of ferric oxide used as a metal polish
rouge et noir
a card game in which the players put their stakes on any of two red and two black diamond-shaped spots marked on the table