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Webster 1913 Edition
Russet
Rus′set
,Adj.
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. Shakespeare
Our summer such a
russet
livery wears. Dryden.
2.
Coarse; homespun; rustic.
[R.]
Shak.
Rus′set
,Noun.
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
Webster 1828 Edition
Russet
RUS'SET
,Adj.
1.
Of a reddish brown color; as a russet mantle.Our summer such a russet livery wears.
2.
Coarse; homespun; rustic.RUS'SET
,Noun.
RUS'SET
,Definition 2024
russet
russet
See also: rußet
English
Noun
russet (countable and uncountable, plural russets)
- A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric.
- Country dress; homespun cloth.
- A reddish-brown color.
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russet colour:
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- Variety of apple with russet-colored, rough skin.
- Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.
Translations
fabric
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color
apple
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potato
Adjective
russet (comparative more russet, superlative most russet)
- Having a reddish-brown color.
- c. 1599–1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, I. 1:
- But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill: […]
- c. 1599–1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, I. 1:
- (archaic) Gray or ash-colored.
- c. 1590–1597, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. 2:
- When they him spy, / As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, / Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, / Rising and cawing at the gun's report, / Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky, / So, at his sight, away his fellows fly […]
- c. 1590–1597, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. 2:
- Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
- c. mid-1590s, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. 2:
- Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas and honest kersey noes […]
- c. mid-1590s, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. 2:
- The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.
Translations
color
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Colors