Il rossetto (encore!)

Today's Parola del giorno is the noun, il rossetto, which means:

• lipstick
• rouge (when applied to the cheeks)

You can see the word used in its context from La Stampa which reports on Barack Obama's comments about pigs and lipstick -- the US election seems to know no boundaries:

"Sbavature di rossetto sulla campagna elettorale americana. Barack Obama ha paragonato il cambiamento promesso da John McCain ad «un maiale con il rossetto, che resta sempre un maiale»...." [click here to read the full article]*

"Lipstick smears on the American electoral campaign. Barack Obama compared the change promised by John McCain to «a big with lipstick, that always remains a big»...."



*http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplRubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=202&ID_articolo=573&ID_sezione=425&sezione=