(n.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
(n.) A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.
(v. i.) To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
(v. t.) To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(2) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
(3) Tony Abbott said Cambodia had been helped by the international community when it was “in trouble some years ago” – a reference to the Khmer Rouge period – but that it was now keen to assist in managing refugee flows.
(4) This time, however, her home was not under threat from Khmer Rouge guerrillas, but was instead demolished by armed construction workers, hired by a land development corporation to carry out one of the capital's most ambitious new property developments.
(5) Brown’s call for the public to adjust their expectations of officers came as protesters in Dallas, Atlanta, Baton Rouge and elsewhere continued to demand police reform.
(6) In Montmartre , at his bar, Le Sabot Rouge, Henri Legourgue watched as the patrol passed outside.
(7) After a long stretch in the saddle, there is no better place to grab a beer than Café Rouge in Richmond Hill.
(8) From the age of 38, he led the Liberals for nine years, flaunting his advantage when, out on the election trail in 1974 wearing a trademark trilby, he vaulted a security barrier like a Moulin Rouge can-can dancer.
(9) But on the morning of 26 March 1996, as his team was preparing to start clearance work in a village in the province of Siem Reap, a group of 30 armed Khmer Rouge guerrillas emerged from the nearby forest.
(10) On Tuesday night about 150 protesters took to the streets of Baton Rouge chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “No justice, no peace”.
(11) A mortality follow-up study was conducted of workers employed at a synthetic rubber manufacturing plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Demonstrator Iesha Evans protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
(13) She said she had worked as an elementary teacher in the Detroit public schools for 30 years, and her husband put in 30 at the Ford River Rouge Plant as a maintenance man.
(14) Similar feuding enveloped the reconstruction of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat following the ousting of the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1990s.
(15) Ben Foster The England reserve goalkeeper is a qualified chef who spent time working in the kitchen of Cafe Rouge in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, after leaving college.
(16) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
(17) The Nazis knew this, and the Khmer Rouge – and the Islamic State clearly understand it too.” The site’s destruction is the latest assault by Isis against the ancient heritage of minorities that have coexisted in the Middle East for millennia.
(18) On Sunday, following the fatal shooting of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the head of the city’s largest police union , Steve Loomis, called on Ohio governor John Kasich to temporarily rescind the right to open carry in the city, arguing those who did jeopardized the safety of officers.
(19) Extensive surveys were conducted in 1987 in Baytown, TX; Lafayette, Shreveport and Baton Rouge, LA; Memphis, TN; Kansas City, MO; Evansville, IN; and Jacksonville, FL.
(20) The modified capillary tube precipitin test was used to identify blood meal sources of Culex quinquefasciatus emerging from sewage ditches in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
Ruse
Definition:
(n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Example Sentences:
(1) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
(2) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
(3) It is a ruse in order to get a second opinion … It is simply going nowhere.
(4) The ruse provoked a response from MLSsoccer.com , for whom Andy Edwards wrote: Whatever your feelings on USA Soccer Guy, your feelings toward the SFA should go something like this: We're sorry we beat you 5-1 last year , and we're also sorry that you're still bitter about it.
(5) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients.
(6) One ruse is to promise marriage to wealthy foreigners.
(7) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
(8) To do so, right under the noses of an often violent state apparatus, they will adopt all sorts of ruses to keep their identity secret or at least partly masked.
(9) The film is poignant because the man is an undercover FBI agent posing as a government official who has lured Chapman to the meeting under the ruse of getting her to pass a fake passport to another "illegal" – a spy who has embedded themselves in America society, outside the protection of the Russian embassy.
(10) Elections are due in 2015, but no one expects anything other than the same old ruses from Lukashenko.
(11) A new report by the International Crisis Group, a respected thinktank, found that Syrian rebel groups were playing up their Islamist credentials by growing Salafi-type beards, for example, as a ruse to secure arms from these conservative Gulf-based donors.
(12) This was an ill-conceived idea in its own time, and today a left-right compromise looks like nothing but a ruse to salvage a political class buffeted by Grillo's digital populism and widespread public contempt.
(13) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients, including on the terrace.
(14) In this view, expression of concern for human rights is not just hypocritical but a ruse.
(15) When Seigner's Wanda forces Almaric's Thomas to wear women's clothes at the end of Venus in Fur , it is hard not to wonder if this is another example of both disguised memoirs and masochistic ruse.
(16) But they have got into general circulation by an elaborate ruse.
(17) Sometimes the ruse plays upon a person's desire to make a profit from an outlandish investment proposal.
(18) To "fix" the region's unfixable Holocaust history, an array of cunning ruses was brought into play.
(19) But the government has adopted a culture of secrecy, as well as legal and parliamentary ruses, to hide from the public the extent that the NHS is being put up for sale to private healthcare companies.
(20) They see it as a Remainer ruse to stay in the EU in all but name.