ROUGE

'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:

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★ 'Green rouge', chromium(III) oxide.

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★ 'White rouge', an ultra-fine, dry grade rouge, not as fine as red rouge.

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★ 'Yellow rouge', for finishing gold, stainless steel, platinum and other hard metals.

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★ '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, ''.

★ A Canadian football term, see Single (football).

★ Rouge, a British pop/R&B girl band

★ 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 Rouge was a method of scoring points in early footballing codes.

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Fictional Characters

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 and Sonic X anime.

★ Rouge, a character in the videogame ''Power Stone''

★ Rouge, a minor character in the Mega Man Zero series.