Russet

Quick meaning: Russet is a noun meaning A reddish-brown color.

Meaning

A reddish-brown color.

More Meanings

1. A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric.
2. A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin.
3. A variety of potato with rough, dark gray-brown skin.
4. Having a reddish-brown color.
5. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
6. The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.
7. (archaic) Gray or ash-colored.

Example Sentences

Rhacĭnus, ni; m. Plin[y] ex ῥάχινον, ob coloris ſimilitudinem. A fiſh of ruſſet colour.

But looke, the Morne in Ruſſet Mantle clad, / Walkes o're the dew of yon high Eaſterne Hill, […]

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.

Many of theſe [turf-bogs] are capable of being converted by induſtry into excellent ground, and, where they occupy not too great a proportion of the land, they compenſate for their ruſſet or ſable hues by the abundance of fuel which they yield.

Word Forms

• russets
• russeting
• russetting
• russeted
• russetted

Synonyms for russet

Depending on context, synonyms include russeting, chromatic, colored.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colored, chromatic, apple, russetin, rufous, russetting.

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