Blush vs Rouge - What's the difference?
blush | rouge |
An act of blushing.
(uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
A color between pink and cream.
To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
* Milton
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
To become red.
* Shakespeare
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
* Shakespeare
To express or make known by blushing.
* Shakespeare
To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
* T. Gray
The collective noun for a group of boys.
Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
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Any reddish pink colour.
(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.
In the Eton College field game, a five-point score 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.
(chemistry, archaic) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.
To apply rouge (makeup).
Rouge is a synonym of blush.
As nouns the difference between blush and rouge
is that blush is an act of blushing while rouge is red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.As verbs the difference between blush and rouge
is that blush is to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment while rouge is to apply rouge (makeup).As an adjective rouge is
of a reddish pink colour.blush
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .Noun
(es)Derived terms
* blush is off the rose * at first blushVerb
(es)- To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
- But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
- The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
- To blush and beautify the cheek again.
- I'll blush you thanks.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Synonyms
* flushing * reddeningEtymology 2
1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.Noun
(es)- A blush of boys.
Usage notes
This is probably a fanciful expression and is not in common use.References
* Noun sense: 1986 Oxford Reference Dictionary: AppendixAnagrams
* ----rouge
English
(wikipedia rouge)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (makeup) blushVerb
(roug)- She rouged her face before setting out for the party.