单词 | rouging |
释义 | rougingn. The action or practice of applying rouge; (also) the colour of applied rouge. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > painting or colouring > with a reddening agent rouging1812 1812 M. Berry Jrnl. 15 July (1865) II. 502 I went to the green-room to assist in rouging, etc. The theatre was..really the prettiest theatre. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris vii. 101 Gilding, like rougeing, suggests..intrinsic deformity and poverty. 1823 J. Neal Randolph I. 66 This plaster is cunningly managed, by the application of gray paint, to look like stone... Upon my word, I should prefer the sober honesty of Dutch brick;—this is rouging, with a vengeance. 1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 368 The practice of rouging..is confined to actresses and women of pleasure. 1892 Daily News 1 Mar. 5/4 Unless indeed this natural rougeing [in animals] is as attractive to the opposite sex as the artificial kind is supposed to be in our species. 1920 J. Galsworthy Tatterdemalion iii. 47 He looked around into her face—in spite of bistre and powder, and the faint rouging on her lips, it had a queer, unholy, touching beauty. 1952 J. M. White Anc. Egypt vi. 117 A restricted amount of rougeing with red ochre was carried out. 2003 Eighteenth-cent. Stud. Winter 189 The sallowness would return, necessitating..the rouging of too pale cheeks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1812 |
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