rouge
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1. rouge - Noun
2. rouge - Adjective
3. rouge - Verb
4. Rouge - Proper noun
Meaning
red.
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.
To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.
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I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.
I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
Women rouge that they may not blush.