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Rouge rouge < Cdn F 
1 n. Hist. a member of the Rouge party.
See also: Bleu Rouge party
- 1856 De Witt having retired from the contest with Mr Renoud a no party candidate, that gentleman is to be opposed by Mr Boutre, a Rouge.
- 1865 By spreading their gold fine, the Rouges are attempting to give to a feeble demonstration an imperial aspect.
- 1963 By [1852] the political scene in Canada had altered considerably. The growing conservatism of Lafontaine and Baldwin had stimulated the rise of the Rouges in Canada East and of the Clear Grits in Canada West.
2 n. in present-day Quebec, a Liberal, especially with reference to federal politics.
- 1958 Politics in French Canada are at last returning to the pattern of the days before Riel--the days of the Rouges and the Bleus.
- 1963 What they really mean is that the Quebec voters' traditional loyalties have been strained to the limit and that the real tug of war no longer is between the rouges and the bleus--the Liberals and the Tories--but between the "old" and the "new" parties.
- 1965 As the Rouge he was, he [Laurier] could poke fun at the classical colleges as "hotbeds of conservatism."
- 1856 De Witt having retired from the contest with Mr Renoud a no party candidate, that gentleman is to be opposed by Mr Boutre, a Rouge.