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Definition of Russet

1. Adjective. Of brown with a reddish tinge.

Definition of Russet

1. a. 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. n. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

Definition of Russet

1. Noun. A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric. ¹

2. Noun. Country dress; homespun cloth. ¹

3. Noun. A reddish-brown color. ¹

4. Noun. Variety of apple of russet-colored, rough skin. ¹

5. Noun. Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin. ¹

6. Adjective. Having a reddish-brown color. ¹

7. Adjective. Gray or ash-colored (antiquated usage). ¹

8. Adjective. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain. ¹

9. Adjective. "Condition of leather when it is finished, excepting the operations of coloring and polishing the surface." (From 1880s British/American dictionary.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Russet

1. a reddish or yellowish brown color [n -S] : RUSSETY [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Russet

Literary usage of Russet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"SWEET russet (l, 2, 3). A small roundish or oblate apple, yellow, ... NY The name Sweet russet has also been applied to the variety described as ..."

2. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"In the English russet the tendency of the fruit to become narrow towards the eye is more marked than in the Golden russet, and its calyx is more often open, ..."

3. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by Great Britain Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1864)
"Another suit of cloth of silver, russet velvet, and cloth of gold of damask, embroidered with dragons, powdered with red roses. ..."

4. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America: Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1900)
"HUNT russet APPLE. This favorite old apple is claimed, by those knowing it best,to have originated witli the Hunt family, at Concord, Mass., ..."

5. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America, Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1883)
"HUNT russet APPLE. This favorite old apple is claimed, by those knowing it best,to have originated with the Hunt family, at Concord, Mass.. nearly 200 years ..."

6. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1847)
"Wine apples; Blood and Seedling Clingstone peaches; White Native grapes. Preserved Arnold, Smithfield, Smooth Pearmain, russet Pearmain, Tifft Sweeting, ..."

7. A Grammar of Colouring, Applied to Decorative Painting and the Arts by George Field (1903)
"OF russet. THE second or middle tertiary colour, russet, like citrine, is constituted ultimately of the three primaries, red, yellow, and blue; ..."

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