Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - rouge

(rouges, rouging, rouged) 1. Rouge is a red powder or cream which women and actors can put on their cheeks in order to give them more colour. (OLD-FASHIONED) = blusher N-UNCOUNT 2. If a woman or an actor rouges their cheeks or lips, they put red powder or cream on them to give them more colour. Florentine women rouged their earlobes... She had curly black hair and rouged cheeks. VERB: V n, V-ed