rouge
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
chemistry
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more rouge
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rouge
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rouges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rouges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rouging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rouged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rouged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a reddish pink colour.
pos: adj
gloss: Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.
gloss: Any reddish pink colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
countable
uncountable
gloss: In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [A] wall [...] against which all those formidable "rouges" (as they are most underivably called) take place; in which above twenty players contend, kicking each others' shins nearly as often as the ball
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The 7 got 1 "gaol" and 1 "ruge"; the 11 got 1 "gaol" and 4 "ruges"
A rouge is obtained by touching the ball first, after it has been kicked behind
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: A rouge is obtained by the player who first touches the ball after it has been kicked between the rouge flags
gloss: A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: To apply rouge (makeup).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She rouged her face before setting out for the party.
She was a lady of about fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complexion. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it.
Related words: rouge et noir
ruby
Derived words: green rouge
jeweller's rouge
rougelike
rouge-plant
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