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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Russet \Rus"set\, n.
1. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.
2. Cloth or clothing of a russet color.
3. A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet
color. --Dryden.
4. An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as the {English
russet}, and the {Roxbury russet}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Russet \Rus"set\, a. [F. rousset, dim. of roux red, L. russus
(for rudtus rudhtus), akin to E. red. See {Red}, and cf
{Roussette}.]
1. 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.
The morn, in russet mantle clad. --Shak.
Our summer such a russet livery wears. --Dryden.
2. Coarse; homespun; rustic. [R.] --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
russet
adj : brown with a reddish tinge
n : a reddish brown homespun fabric
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