rouge

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹuːʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹuʒ/
• Rhymes: -uːʒ

Adjective

rouge (comparative more rouge, superlative most rouge)

1. Of a reddish pink colour.

Related terms

• Baton Rouge
• bête rouge
• beurre rouge
• Khmer Rouge

Noun

rouge (countable and uncountable, plural rouges)

1. Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.

   Synonym: blush
2. Any reddish pink colour.
3. (Canadian football) 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.

   Synonym: single

4. (obsolete) 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.
6. (obsolete) From 1862 to 1868, a similar scoring move in Sheffield rules football. From 1862 to 1867, accomplished by touching the ball down after it had been kicked between two "rouge flags" either side of the goal. From 1867-1868, awarded for kicking the ball between the rouge flags and under the crossbar.
7. (chemistry, archaic) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.

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Translations

Verb

rouge (third-person singular simple present rouges, present participle rouging, simple past and past participle rouged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply rouge (makeup).

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

Anagrams

• Rogue, orgue, rogue

Champenois

Alternative forms

• (Rémois) roude

Etymology

Inherited from Old French roge, From Latin rubeus (“red”), from Latin ruber (“red”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ruʒ/

Adjective

rouge m (feminine rouge, plural rouges)

1. (Troyen, Langrois) red

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[6] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[7] (in French), Troyes

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French rouge, from Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁuʒ/
• (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) IPA^(key): /ˈʁuʒə/

Adjective

rouge (plural rouges)

1. red (of a red color)

   Le sang est rouge. ― Blood is red.

2. red (left-wing, socialist)

   L’armée rouge. ― Red Army.

3. (US) a supporter of the Republican Party

Noun

rouge m (plural rouges)

1. red

Synonyms

• gueules (heraldry)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → English: rouge
• Haitian Creole: rouj, wouj
• → Hijazi Arabic: روج (rōj)
• → Japanese: ルージュ (rūju)
• → Korean: 루주 (ruju)
• Louisiana Creole: rouj
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: rouge
• → Serbo-Croatian: ruž
• → Swedish: rouge
• → Turkish: ruj

See also

Further reading

• “rouge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• orgue

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French rouge (“red”), from Middle French rouge, from Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.

Noun

rouge

1. rouge: Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.

Further reading

• “rouge” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.

Noun

rouge m (uncountable)

1. red

Adjective

rouge m or f (plural rouges)

1. red

Descendants

• French: rouge
  • → English: rouge
  • Haitian Creole: rouj, wouj
  • → Hijazi Arabic: روج (rōj)
  • → Japanese: ルージュ (rūju)
  • → Korean: 루주 (ruju)
  • Louisiana Creole: rouj
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: rouge
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ruž
  • → Swedish: rouge
  • → Turkish: ruj

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French rouge (“red”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). Doublet of raud.

Noun

rouge m (definite singular rougen, indefinite plural rougar, definite plural rougane)

1. (cosmetics) red makeup (for the cheeks)

References

• “rouge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From French rouge (“red”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). Doublet of röd.

Noun

rouge n or c

1. (cosmetics) rouge (red or pink makeup (for the cheeks))

Declension

References

• rouge in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rouge in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rouge in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)