Definitions for russet
ˈrʌs ɪtrus·set

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. russetadjective

   a reddish brown homespun fabric

2. russetadjective

   of brown with a reddish tinge

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. russetnoun

   A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric.

2. russetnoun

   Country dress; homespun cloth.

3. russetnoun

   Variety of apple of russet-colored, rough skin.

4. russetnoun

   Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.

5. russetadjective

   Having a reddish-brown color.

6. russetadjective

   Gray or ash-colored (antiquated usage).

   "Russet-pated" (gray hair). Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2.

7. russetadjective

   Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.

   Shakespeare, Loves Labour's Lost, V. 2

8. russetadjective

   "Condition of leather when it is finished, excepting the operations of coloring and polishing the surface." (From 1880s British/American dictionary.)

9. Etymology: Middle English< Old French rousset< rous< Latin russus, meaning "reddish".

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Russetadjective

   Etymology: rousset, Fr. russus, Lat.

   1. Reddishly brown.

   The morn, in russet mantle clad,
   Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill. William Shakespeare.

   Our summer such a russet livery wears,
   As in a garment often dy’d appears. Dryden.

   2. Newton seems to use it for grey; but, if the etymology be regarded, improperly.

   This white spot was immediately encompassed with a dark grey or russet, and that dark grey with the colours of the first iris. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   3. Coarse; homespun; rustick. It is much used in descriptions of the manners and dresses of the country, I suppose, because it was formerly the colour of rustick dress: in some places, the rusticks still die cloaths spun at home with bark, which must make them russet.

   Taffata phrases, silken terms precise,
   Figures pedantical: these summer flies
   Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:
   Henceforth my wooing mind shall be exprest
   In russet yeas, and honest kersy noes. William Shakespeare.

2. Russetnoun

   Country dress. See Russet, adj.

   The Dorick dialect has a sweetness in its clownishness, like a fair shepherdess in her country russet. Dryden.

3. Russet, Russetingnoun

   A name given to several sorts of pears or apples from their colour.

   The russet pearmain is a very pleasant fruit, continuing long on the tree, and in the conservatory partakes both of the russeting and pearmain in colour and taste; the one side being generally russet, and the other streaked like a pearmain. John Mortimer.

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1. russet

   Russet is a term used to describe a color, typically dark brown or reddish-brown. It is often associated with items like potatoes, apples, or foliage that have a coarse, reddish-brown skin. It can also refer to a coarse, homespun cloth or a type of apple or pear that is typically grown for its brownish-red skin and particularly sweet flesh.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Russetadjective

   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

2. Russetadjective

   coarse; homespun; rustic

3. Russetnoun

   a russet color; a pigment of a russet color

4. Russetnoun

   cloth or clothing of a russet color

5. Russetnoun

   a country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color

6. Russetnoun

   an apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet

7. Etymology: [F. rousset, dim. of roux red, L. russus (for rudtus, rudhtus), akin to E. red. See Red, and cf. Roussette.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.5 / 4 votes

1. Russet

   Russet is a dark brown color with a reddish-orange tinge. As a tertiary color, russet is an equal mix of orange and purple pigments. The first recorded use of russet as a color name in English was in 1562. The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names--Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps The name of the color derives from russet, a coarse cloth made of wool and dyed with woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or reddish-brown shade. By the statute of 1363, poor English people were required to wear russet. Russet, a color of Autumn, is often associated with sorrow or grave seriousness. Anticipating a lifetime of regret, Shakespeare's character Biron says: "Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas and honest kersey noes." The color is mentioned in a famous quote taken from a letter Oliver Cromwell wrote to Sir William Spring in September 1643: "I had rather have a plain, russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, [than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else]".

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Russet

   rus′et, adj. rusty or reddish-brown: coarse: rustic: of russet-leather.—n. a coarse homespun dress.—ns. Russ′eting, an apple of a russet colour and rough skin; Russ′et-leath′er.—adj. Russ′ety. [O. Fr. rousset—L. russus, red.]

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Anagrams for russet »

1. estrus

2. struse

3. surest

4. tusser

How to pronounce russet?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say russet in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of russet in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of russet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of russet in a Sentence

1. Oliver Cromwell:

   I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=russet
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Russet
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=russet
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/russet
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=russet
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=russet
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=russet