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Webster 1913 Edition


Russet

Rus′set

,
Adj.
[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.
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.
[L. russus. See Red and Ruddy.]
1.
Of a reddish brown color; as a russet mantle.
Our summer such a russet livery wears.
2.
Coarse; homespun; rustic.

RUS'SET

,
Noun.
A country dress.

RUS'SET

,

Definition 2024


russet

russet

See also: rußet

English

Noun

russet (countable and uncountable, plural russets)

  1. A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric.
  2. Country dress; homespun cloth.
  3. A reddish-brown color.
    russet colour:    
  4. Variety of apple with russet-colored, rough skin.
  5. Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.

Translations

Adjective

russet (comparative more russet, superlative most russet)

  1. 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: []
    1. (botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.
  2. (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 []
  3. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
  4. The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.

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Derived terms

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Anagrams


German

Verb

russet

  1. Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of rußet.