Wearing or decorated with rouge, a red cosmetic powder or cream applied to the cheeks or lips.
From French rouge (red) with English past participle ending -ed. The French word comes from Latin rubeus meaning red. The cosmetic became fashionable in 16th-century Europe and the term followed.
Rouge was originally made from crushed beetles and minerals, and in the 1700s wearing heavy rouge was so fashionable that people looked like they were wearing clown makeup by today's standards!
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