/ · 1894 Brewer’s · R · 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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