Definitions for rouge

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Spelling: [roozh]

IPA: /ruʒ/

Rouge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in rouge (egoru).

Definitions for rouge

noun

1. any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
2. a reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used for polishing metal, glass, etc.
3. Canadian football.

adjective

1. red; noting the red numbers in roulette.

verb (used with object)

1. to color with rouge.

verb (used without object)

1. to use rouge.

Origin of rouge

1475-85; French: red Latin rubeus; akin to red¹

Examples for rouge

How ashamed the poor old man was; he reddened through all his rouge.

The hair, powdered white, was absent; so too were the patches; so also was the rouge.

rouge was born in Silesia in 1813 and died in October, 1887.

From red that she had been, she was now ashen under her rouge.

It is for not backing the "rouge" that he is inexorable towards him.

Her face was ghastly, save for the trace of rouge; her eyes were red-rimmed.

Her cheeks blazed with rouge, her eyes were restless and anxious.

No amount of rouge will ever camouflage rhetoric and sophistry.

He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge.

Had she got the rouge a trifle brighter on one cheek than on the other?