rouged

rouge  (rzh)

n.

1. A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips.

2. A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass.

v. rouged, roug·ing, roug·es

v.tr.

1. To put rouge onto: rouged her cheeks.

2. 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).

v.intr.

To use rouge.

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[French, from Old French, red, from Latin rubeus; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

rouged - marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup; "freshly rouged lips"; "rouged cheeks" painted - having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces"