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Rouge

Rouge

Rouge — paint to fake a healthy glow — often touches practising deceit to get your wishes, or being used to further a deceiver's designs. The dream may ask where you're putting on a false colour to achieve something, and whether the artificial appearance you've adopted is bound to be detected and bring humiliation.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rouge, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream of using rouge, denotes that you will practice deceit to obtain your wishes.

To see others with it on their faces, warns you that you are being artfully used to further the designs of some deceitful persons.

If you see it on your hands, or clothing, you will be detected in some scheme.

If it comes off of your face, you will be humiliated before some rival, and lose your lover by assuming unnatural manners.