Usage examples (4)

• Edna was a picture of pure competitiveness dressed up as loving mother, who allowed us to laugh off our rapacious cynicism or stare it in the berouged face, depending on...
• Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.
• And yet he was conscious of some formless programme forming mistily in his mind -- a programme that did not include the berouged, be-powdered, plump, and silken Miss Bauers.
• A shade or two at most frostily touched by the winter of old age -- but a berouged, beraddled, bedizened old make-believe, with wrinkles plastered thick, and skinny...