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Rouge vs Rouse - What's the difference?

rouge | rouse |

As nouns the difference between rouge and rouse

is that rouge is red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher while rouse is an arousal.

As verbs the difference between rouge and rouse

is that rouge is to apply rouge (makeup) while rouse is to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

As an adjective rouge

is of a reddish pink colour.

As a proper noun Rouse is

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rouge

English

(wikipedia rouge)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a reddish pink colour.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.
  • * '>citation
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (makeup) blush

    Verb

    (roug)
  • To apply rouge (makeup).
    • She rouged her face before setting out for the party.

    Derived terms

    * jeweller's rouge

    Related terms

    * Baton Rouge * Khmer Rouge * rouge et noir

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    rouse

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.

    Alternative forms

    * rouze (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an arousal
  • (military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .

    • Verb

    (rous)
  • to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
    • to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
  • * Atterbury
    • to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
  • * Shakespeare
    • Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Morpheus rouses from his bed.
  • (senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
  • * Milton
    • Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
  • To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
    • to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
  • * Spenser
    • Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
  • (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
  • (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
    • (Spenser)
    (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an official ceremony over drinks
    • And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
    Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
  • A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
  • * Tennyson
    • Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.
  • wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

    • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs