unrouged

noun

1. any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
2. a reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used for polishing metal, glass, etc.
3. Canadian football.

verb (used with object), rouged, roug·ing.

4. to color with rouge.

verb (used without object), rouged, roug·ing.

5. to use rouge.

noun

1. a red powder, used as a cosmetic for adding redness to the cheeks
2. short for jeweller’s rouge

verb (tr)

3. to apply rouge to

n.1753, in cosmetic sense, “blush,” from French rouge “red coloring matter,” noun use of adjective “red” (12c.), from Latin rubeus, related to ruber “red” (see red). Replaced native paint in this sense. The verb is attested from 1777. Related: Rouged; rouging. The same word had been borrowed from French in Middle English with the sense “red color; red” (early 15c.).