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Rouge is blusher or a red powder or cream used to give color to the cheeks.

(noun)

A reddish-toned makeup from Clinique or Bobby Brown or Maybelline that you put on your cheeks in order to give them some color is an example of rouge.

Rouge is defined as a red powder that is used to polish glass and metals.

(noun)

An example of rouge is a ferric oxide-based powder that allows a shine to be buffed onto metal.

See rouge in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

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
a reddish powder, mainly ferric oxide, for polishing jewelry, metal, etc.

Origin: Fr, red, rouge < L rubeus: see Ruby

transitive verb rouged, rouging

to color with rouge

intransitive verb

to use cosmetic rouge

noun

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

Origin: orig. slang term at Eton, a scrimmage < ?

intransitive verb, transitive verb rouged, rouging

to carry out or cause to carry out a rouge

See rouge in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips.
A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass.

verb rouged rouged, roug·ing, roug·es

verb, transitive

To put rouge onto: rouged her cheeks.
To color or prettify as if with a facial cosmetic: “Their job is to rouge up the war . . . to turn the horror into cheering press releases” (Richard Corliss).

verb, intransitive

To use rouge.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Old French, red

Origin: , from Latin rubeus; see reudh- in Indo-European roots

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