different between rouge vs rousse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Adjective

rouge (comparative more rouge, superlative most rouge)

1. Of a reddish pink colour.

Noun

rouge (countable and uncountable, plural rouges)

1. Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
2. Any reddish pink colour.
3. (Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.)
4. (obsolete) In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.
5. In the Eton College field game, a scoring move accomplished by touching the ball down behind the opponents' goal-line (somewhat similar to the try in rugby). Originally, the player who scored the rouge had a chance to kick a goal, and the rouge was used as a tie-breaker if an equal number of goals was scored by each side. In the contemporary Eton College field game, a five-point score is awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball.
6. (obsolete) From 1862 to 1868, a similar scoring move in Sheffield rules football. From 1862 to 1867, accomplished by touching the ball down after it had been kicked between two "rouge flags" either side of the goal. From 1867-1868, awarded for kicking the ball between the rouge flags and under the crossbar.
7. (chemistry, archaic) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.

Synonyms

• (makeup): blush

Related terms

• ruby

Translations

Verb

rouge (third-person singular simple present rouges, present participle rouging, simple past and past participle rouged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply rouge (makeup).

   She rouged her face before setting out for the party.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 13:

     She was a lady of about fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complexion. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it.

Translations

Derived terms

• jeweller's rouge

Related terms

• Baton Rouge
• Khmer Rouge
• rouge et noir

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Anagrams

• Rogue, orgue, rogue

French

Etymology

From Middle French rouge, from Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?/

Adjective

rouge (plural rouges)

1. red (of a red color)

   Le sang est rouge. - Blood is red.

2. red (left-wing, socialist)

   L'armée rouge. - Red Army.

Noun

rouge m (plural rouges)

1. red

Synonyms

• gueules (heraldry)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: rouge
• ? Japanese: ????
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ruž

See also

Further reading

• “rouge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• orgue

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.

Noun

rouge m (uncountable)

1. red

Adjective

rouge m or f (plural rouges)

1. red

Descendants

• French: rouge
  • ? English: rouge
  • ? Japanese: ????
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: ruž

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French rouge (“red”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?- (“red”). Doublet of raud.

Noun

rouge m (definite singular rougen, indefinite plural rougar, definite plural rougane)

1. (cosmetics) red makeup (for the cheeks)

References

• “rouge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?us/
• Rhymes: -us

Adjective

rousse

1. feminine singular of roux

Noun

rousse f (plural rousses)

1. redhead (woman)

Further reading

• “rousse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ourses, soeurs, sœurs

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

rousse f (plural rousses)

1. (Jersey) nursehound, large-spotted dogfish, greater spotted dogfish, bull huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris)
2. (Jersey) small-spotted catshark, lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)

Synonyms

• tchian d'mé
• (Scyliorhinus stellaris): d'mouaîselle
• (Scyliorhinus canicula): mataud, rousset