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Rouge (A)

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i.e. a red cap, a red republican, a democrat.

“She had all the furious prejudices and all the instinctive truths in her of an uncompromising Rouge.”—Ouida: Under Two Flags, chap. xxxiv.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Rota or Rota Men
Rota Aristotelica (Aristotle’s wheel)
Rota Romana
Rote
Rothschild [Red Shield]
Rotten Row
Rotundity of the Belt (Washington Irving)
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Rouen
Rouge (A)
Rouge Croix
Rouge Dragon
Rouge et Noir (French, red and black)
Rough-hewn
Rough Music
Rough-shod
Rough and Ready
Rough and Ready
Roughs (The)
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