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• v  redden by applying rouge to
  she rouged her cheeks
• s  marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup
  freshly rouged lips
  rouged cheeks

• Instead of seducing the audience into Barrie's world, it assumes we will have brought the magic with us and need only a rouged-up, dewily rendered version of the true story.
• In the boudoir, her persona merges with that of her rouged, jewel-bedecked lover Ambrose, while at Geneva's decadent Molly Club, the two inhabit a world of ambiguous sexuality.
• Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's .

• rouge

News & Articles

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• Some Jazz Age Lawn Party Workers Still Waiting To Get Paid By Caterer
  By most accounts, the Jazz Age Lawn Party was a splendid event defined by twirling parasols and cloche hats and wide, red-rouged grins. Even the staff who catered the festival had a nice time, said Elric Martinez, one of the cooks employed by Jimmy's No. 43, which served food to the thousands of flapping masses who flooded Governor's Island over the weekend of August 17th. [ more › ]        
  Sept. 4, 2013 - Gothamist

Quotes

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• Richard Burton in Salon
  Nineteenth-century British explorer Richard Burton wrote in his accounts of travels through the region about "lads almost in women's attire with kohl'd eyes and rouged cheeks."