RUSSET

russet

(adjective) of brown with a reddish tinge

russet

(noun) a reddish brown homespun fabric

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

russet (countable and uncountable, plural russets)

A reddish-brown color.

A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric.

A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin.

Synonym: russeting

Coordinate term: reinette

A variety of potato with rough, dark gray-brown skin.

Adjective

russet (comparative more russet, superlative most russet)

Having a reddish-brown color.

(archaic) Gray or ash-colored.

Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.

The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.

(botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.

Verb

russet (third-person singular simple present russets, present participle russetting or russeting, simple past and past participle russetted or russeted)

(ambitransitive, of apples, pears, etc.) To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.

Anagrams

• Suters, estrus, struse, surest, tusser

Source: Wiktionary

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Rus"set, a. Etym: [F. rousset, dim. of roux red, L. russus (for rudtus, rudhtus), akin to E. red. See Red, and cf. Roussette.]

1. Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color. The morn, in russet mantle clad. Shak. Our summer such a russet livery wears. Dryden.

2. Coarse; homespun; rustic. [R.] Shak.

Rus"set, n.

1. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

2. Cloth or clothing of a russet color.

3. A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color. Dryden.

4. An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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