Noun: rouge
| Singular | rouge |
| Plural | rouges |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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[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 November 19, “On Eton Games, Continued”, in Eton College Magazine, number viii, page 284:]
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The 7 got 1 "gaol" and 1 "ruge"; the 11 got 1 "gaol" and 4 "ruges" [1840 November 29, C. Pepys, “[Letter to the editor]”, in Bell's Life in London^(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Football_(Bells_Life_in_London)_1840-11-29.png), page 4:]
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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^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Eton_Field_Game_(1847)):]
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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^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sheffield_Rules_(1862)):]
Nouns inflected like rouge
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary. See: French Nouns '
rouge', Latin Nouns '
rubeus', Middle English Nouns '
rouge'.