You should look up rouge. It is not rogue. Note the spelling. The pronunciation is also different. The only phoneme they share is the first one.
I really, really, HATE the confusion of ‘rouge’ with ‘rogue’. There is no excuse for it. My wife’s native language isn’t even Indo-European, & she grew up in a country where only the native (totally unrelated to Indo-European languages) language has any status, & as she says, the teaching of foreign languages, even English, is extremely poor – but she’s never made that mistake.
rouge
ruːʒ/
noun
1.
a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for colouring the cheeks or lips.
“she wore patches of rouge on her cheeks”
2.
short for jeweller’s rouge.
verb
1.
colour with rouge.
“her brightly rouged cheeks”
adjective
rogue
rəʊg/Submit
noun
1.
a dishonest or unprincipled man.
“you are a rogue and an embezzler”
synonyms: scoundrel, villain, reprobate, rascal, good-for-nothing, wretch;
French: rouge. Translation to English: red.
See? I gave you very strong hints. I offered you the chance to take them, to think about what I’d said & check it, but you chose not to. But as has been said, “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” You wouldn’t take the opportunity to privately check what you thought you knew: you were confident in your illusion, so I had to disillusion you publicly. What did you think I was doing? I was mocking you gently to give you the chance to escape public humiliation. All you had to do was put ‘rouge’ into Google, & you’d have found your mistake.
Learn from this.
Rouge (or red in english) could be employed to name the communists which are precisely a bunch of “dishonest or (especially) unprincipled men.”
So what’s your point?
Nic
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