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RUSSET
russet
(adjective) of brown with a reddish tinge
russet
(noun) a reddish brown homespun fabric
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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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