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rouged

rouged

1 7.2
Having red makeup on the cheeks or lips
  • adjective
  • /ruːdʒd/
translation icon : maquillada
  • With her rouged lips and sparkling eyes, she captivated everyone's attention.
  • rouged cheeks
  • rouged lips
  • rouged woman

Pallid and rouged, embalmed with chemicals.

Examples

  • Her eyes were shadowed, uncharacteristically; her face was deeply rouged.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Thus far it never had, and now as Weltrude stood on the bottom step of the dais, her smile curved her rouged lips just the proper amount and no more.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Can you see how rouged and gorgeous she looks?

  • A fat man with a wildly rouged woman came down the street.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Rouged and beribboned, she insists the size 3 blouse is hers.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • An elderly, overly rouged woman sat next to Jeremy, talking on and on about the battle of Fort Fisher and how heathens the Yankees were to attack on Christmas Day.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The smoke issuing from between her rouged lips reinforces the message of sexual satiation, otherwise relayed by her reddened cheeks.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Lewis noticed that she was thinner than before, tanned and rather bloated, no longer the Snow Queen, no longer the rouged Queen Bee he had married in a rough but pretty ceremony in Ely, Nevada.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • She wore a beautiful gown and had her cheeks lightly rouged for the occasion.

  • The actress appeared on stage with a rouged face that highlighted her features.

Synonyms

lipsticked
vsrouged
1 5.6

Having lipstick on the lips

focuses on red makeup on cheeks or lips rather than just lips
painted
vsrouged
  • Archaic
3.5

Wearing thick, obvious makeup

focuses on red makeup on cheeks or lips rather than overall heavy makeup

Antonyms

natural
660 1.0

Normal and healthy for the body or mind

unadorned
6 5.1

Plain in appearance with no decoration

How Made-up

painted
  • Archaic
3.5
rouged
1 7.2
tinted
16 3.2

Surface Forms

rouged positive

Morphology

rouged = rouge (transparent) = rouge + ed

Formed from the verb 'rouge' + the adjectival/past-participle suffix '-ed', meaning 'made red with rouge', so learners who know 'rouge' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Rouged comes from the French word rouge, which means 'red' and was the name for the red makeup people put on their cheeks or lips. So, to be rouged is to have your face colored with that red makeup.