russet

Meanings

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

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

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

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”).