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 our inclinations. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=2740]
Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
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 shoulders dusted white with powder -- ah me, how you would wish you had not gone!. From Wordnik.com. [Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches] Reference
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