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