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ROUGE (" red," from Lat. rubeus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROUGE (" red," from See also:Lat. rubeus)  , a See also:French name applied to various colouring substances of a brilliant See also:carmine tint, especially when used as cosmetics . The best of these preparations are such as have for their basis carthamine, obtained from the See also:safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) . The See also:Chinese prepare a See also:rouge, said to be from safflower, which, spread on the See also:cards on which it is sold, has a brilliant metallic See also:green lustre, but when moistened and applied to the skin assumes a delicate carmine tint . Jeweller's rouge for polishing See also:plate is a See also:fine red See also:iron See also:oxide prepared by calcination from ferrous sulphate (green See also:vitriol) .

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