Definition of "rouging" []

• Present participle of rouge. (verb)

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• "By the 1920s, no longer was lily white-skin a sign of breeding: a healthy glowing suntan now professed the wealth and leisure that allowed one to vacation at the beach, and rouging ones knees and powdering ones face, in public naturally, became a common occurrence."
• ""His mistresses," says she, carefully rouging her lip."
• "She set the table with her Spode china that had been a wedding gift, and fixed herself up, rouging her cheeks and primping her hair with the curling iron she'd heated on the stove."