Rose - a beautiful woman in red (8)
I believe the answer is:
rebelled
'rose' is the definition.
('rebel' can be a synonym of 'rise')
'a beautiful woman in red' is the wordplay.
'a beautiful woman' becomes 'belle' (I've seen this before).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'belle' inserted into 'red' is 'REBELLED'.
(Other definitions for rebelled that I've seen before include "Fought against authority" , "Showed dissent" , "Refused to obey" , "Revolted" , "Rose in opposition" .)