rouge: meaning and definitions

A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips.

A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass.

To put rouge onto: rouged her cheeks.

To color or prettify as if with a facial cosmetic: "Their job is to rouge up the war . . . to turn the horror into cheering press releases” ( Richard Corliss).

To use rouge.