ROUGE
What does "ROUGE" mean?
A red or pink cosmetic powder or cream used to color the cheeks; blusher.
Meanings
- A red cosmetic applied to the cheeks or lips to add color. She brushed a little rouge across her cheekbones.
- A fine red powder of iron oxide used to polish metal and glass. Jewelers buff gold with rouge until it shines. technical
- To apply rouge; to color red. She rouged her lips before the curtain rose.
Did you know?
- The 'rouge' that polishes a jeweler's gold and the 'rouge' that reddens a cheek share a chemistry of redness: jeweller's rouge is finely powdered iron oxide - essentially refined rust.
Word origin
Directly from French 'rouge' (red), from Latin 'rubeus' (reddish), related to 'ruber' (red).
Remember it
ROUGE keeps its French face: the silent '-ge' ending and the 'oo' sound tell you it walked straight in from Paris, meaning 'red'.
A little poem
A thumb of red along the tired cheek-
the oldest lie that no one minds you tell.
couplet
Wordplay
- The jeweler and the makeup artist swore by the same rouge - one to make gold glow, the other to make a face do the same.
What it teaches
The same red powder that hides a flush can polish a jewel - a tool's worth depends entirely on whose hand holds it.
Quick facts
What does ROUGE mean?
A red or pink cosmetic powder or cream used to color the cheeks; blusher.
Is ROUGE a valid word?
Yes — ROUGE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ROUGE?
ROUGE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does ROUGE come from?
Directly from French 'rouge' (red), from Latin 'rubeus' (reddish), related to 'ruber' (red).
What can ROUGE teach us?
The same red powder that hides a flush can polish a jewel - a tool's worth depends entirely on whose hand holds it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.