rouge

Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːʒ/

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• Rhymes: -uːʒ

rouge (comparative more rouge, superlative most rouge)

1. Of a reddish pink colour.

rouge (countable and uncountable, plural rouges)

1. Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.

2. Any reddish pink colour.
3. (Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.)
4. (obsolete) In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.
   • 1832 November 19, “On Eton Games, Continued”, in Eton College Magazine‎, number viii, page 284:

     [A] wall [...] against which all those formidable "rouges" (as they are most underivably called) take place; in which above twenty players contend, kicking each others' shins nearly as often as the ball

5. In the Eton College field game a five-point score awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball. Also, from 1862 to 1868, a similar scoring move in Sheffield rules football.
   • 1847, Tremayne, H.H.; Thompson, A.R., Field Game Rules‎:

     A rouge is obtained by touching the ball first, after it has been kicked behind

   • 1862, Laws of the Sheffield Foot-Ball Club‎:

     A rouge is obtained by the player who first touches the ball after it has been kicked between the rouge flags

6. (chemistry, archaic) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.

• (makeup): blush

• ruby

rouge (third-person singular simple present rouges, present participle rouging, simple past and past participle rouged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply rouge (makeup).

   She rouged her face before setting out for the party.

• jeweller's rouge

• Baton Rouge
• Khmer Rouge
• rouge et noir

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

• Rogue, orgue, rogue

From Middle French rouge, from Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁuʒ/

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rouge (plural rouges)

1. red (of a red color)

   Le sang est rouge. - Blood is red.

2. red (left-wing, socialist)

   L'armée rouge. - Red Army.

rouge m (plural rouges)

1. red

• gueules (heraldry)

• rougeâtre
• rougeaud
• rougeoiement
• rougeole
• rougeoyer
• rouget
• rougeur
• rougir

• Serbo-Croatian: ruž

• “rouge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• orgue

From Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.

rouge m (uncountable)

1. red

rouge m or f (plural rouges)

1. red

• French: rouge