russet

Meanings

Noun

• A reddish-brown color.
• A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric.
• A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin.
• A variety of potato with rough, dark gray-brown skin.

Adjective

• Having a reddish-brown color.
• Gray or ash-colored.
• Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
• The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.
• Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.

Verb

• To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.

Origin

• From Middle English russet, from Anglo-Norman russet, rossat, roset, and Middle French rosset, rousset, from Middle French rous, rus + -et; compare Late Latin rossetum, russetum, russeta, Latin russus ("[[red#Adjective") (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- ("red")), Occitan rosseta ("rough wool cloth").