rose vs rouge

rose

adj
  • Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy. 

verb
  • To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. 

  • To perfume, as with roses. 

  • simple past tense of rise 

noun
  • Something resembling a rose flower. 

  • A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. 

  • The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended. 

  • A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose. 

  • A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae) 

  • Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta. 

  • Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares. 

  • A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers. 

  • The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed. 

  • A flower of the rose plant. 

  • A graph with only one vertex. 

rouge

adj
  • Of a reddish pink colour. 

verb
  • To apply rouge (makeup). 

noun
  • Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher. 

  • 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. 

  • Any reddish pink colour. 

  • 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. 

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