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russet

noun
/ˈɹʌsɪt/US

Etymology

From Middle English russet, from Anglo-Norman russet, rossat, roset, and Middle French rosset, rousset (“reddish, reddish-brown; a rough wool cloth”), from Middle French rous, rus (“to rouse”) + -et (diminutive suffix); compare Late Latin rossetum, russetum, russeta (“rough wool cloth”), Latin russus (“red”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)), Occitan rosseta (“rough wool cloth”).

  1. derived from rous
  2. derived from rosset
  3. derived from russet
  4. inherited from russet

Definitions

  1. A reddish-brown color.

    • Rhacĭnus, ni; m. Plin[y] ex ῥάχινον, ob coloris ſimilitudinem. A fiſh of ruſſet colour.
    • And I could tell / What form my dreaming was about to take. / Magnified apples appear and disappear, / Stem end and blossom end, / And every fleck of russet showing clear.

  2. A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric

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

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

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

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

    2. Having a reddish-brown color.

      • But looke, the Morne in Ruſſet Mantle clad, / Walkes o're the dew of yon high Eaſterne Hill, […]
      • Arnak shook his heavy russet head, bemused.

    3. Gray or ash-colored.

    4. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.

      • Hencefoorth my wooing minde ſhalbe expreſt / In ruſſet yeas, and honeſt kerſie noes.

    5. The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored…

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

    6. Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish

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

      • Many apple varieties are mottled or russet, with a rough, dull skin hiding crisp, flavorful flesh.

    7. To develop reddish-brown spots

      To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.

      • Cultivars differ greatly in their propensity to russet: the characteristic is heritable but more than one factor seems to be involved[…].
      • I surprised my own amazement in the looking glass / where the resinous radiance of a chandelier / russeted the chaise longue and the chiffonier. / Autumn lay over everything I loved.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA