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Uncommonrouge
The correct spelling is rouge.
How to pronounce rouge
/ɹuːʒ/
nounIPA: /ɹuːʒ/
Say it like: Row-je
The correct spelling is rouge. Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. For example: "She rouged her face before setting out for the party."
Usage Examples
“She rouged her face before setting out for the party.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
- 2.Any reddish pink colour.
- 3.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.In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.
- 5.In the Eton College field game, a scoring move accomplished by touching the ball down behind the opponents' goal-line (somewhat similar to the try in rugby). Originally, the player who scored the rouge had a chance to kick a goal, and the rouge was used as a tie-breaker if an equal number of goals was scored by each side. In the contemporary Eton College field game, a five-point score is 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.
verb
- 1.To apply rouge (makeup).
adjective
- 1.Of a reddish pink colour.
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