rouge

Etymology

Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Doublet of rubious.

adj

1. Of a reddish pink colour.

noun

1. Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
   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. 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind
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.
4. (obsolete) In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.
   [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 1832-11-19, “On Eton Games, Continued”, in Eton College Magazine, number viii, page 284
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.
   The 7 got 1 "gaol" and 1 "ruge"; the 11 got 1 "gaol" and 4 "ruges" 1840-11-29, C. Pepys, “[Letter to the editor]”, in Bell's Life in London_1840-11-29.png), page 4
   A rouge is obtained by touching the ball first, after it has been kicked behind 1847, H.H. Tremayne, A.R. Thompson, Field Game Rules)
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.
   A rouge is obtained by the player who first touches the ball after it has been kicked between the rouge flags 1862, Laws of the Sheffield Foot-Ball Club)
7. (chemistry, archaic) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply rouge (makeup).
   She rouged her face before setting out for the party.