Rouge
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Rouge means red in French. It can refer to:
- Rouge, a cosmetic used to color the cheeks and emphasize the cheekbones.
- A fine powder of iron(III) oxide, used for polishing or cosmetics.
- A similar abrasive powder, with composition and particle size of each type varying from manufacturer to manufacturer:
- Green rouge, chromium(III) oxide.
- White rouge, an ultra-fine, dry grade rouge, not as fine as red rouge.
- Yellow rouge, for finishing gold, stainless steel, platinum and other hard metals.
- Black rouge, a precision optical grade rouge, offers very smooth, dependable results for final polishing and figuring, ideal for obtaining a very smooth surface with more "luster" than cerium oxide or even red rouge.
- White, yellow, and black rouge typically contain aluminium oxide as the active polishing ingredient, combined with other compounds.
- Links to Communism, especially in terms such as Khmer Rouge.
- The name of the weekly paper of the French party Revolutionary Communist League.
- A member of the Parti rouge, a radical French Canadian political body formed around 1848.
- The Rouge, popular name for Ford Motor Company's River Rouge Plant, once one of the world's largest factories, located on River Rouge.
- Rouge Steel Company, steelworks formerly part of the River Rouge Plant.
- A 1987 movie, Rouge.
- A 1994 movie, Three Colors: Rouge.
- A Canadian football term, see Single (football).
- British Asian-Arab Girl band Rouge
- Brazilian Girl Band Rouge
- Rouge, a 13-parts MTV television series, produced by MTV Asia & MediaCorp Singapore and broadcasted widely in Asia, Australia and the United States (on AZN Television).
- A common misspelling of rogue.
- A Rouge was a method of scoring points in early footballing codes.
[edit] Fictional Characters
- Rouge, a minor character in the series Ranma 1/2.
- Rouge the Bat, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of videogames
- Rouge, a character in the videogame Power Stone
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