Brewer's: Rouge

(A), 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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