Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.
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Having a reddish-brown color.
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Gray or ash-colored (antiquated usage).
"Russet-pated" (gray hair). Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2.
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Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
Shakespeare, Loves Labour's Lost, V. 2
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"Condition of leather when it is finished, excepting the operations of coloring and polishing the surface." (From 1880s British/American dictionary.)
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
russet
Plural:
russets
Origin of russet
Middle English from Old French roussetfromrousredfrom Latin russusreudh- in Indo-European roots
From
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English, from Old French rousset, from rous, from Latin russus (“reddish")
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Wiktionary
Russet Sentence Examples
The preachers were picturesque figures in long russet dress down to the heels, who, staff in hand, preached in the mother tongue to the people in churches and graveyards, in squares, streets and houses, in gardens and pleasure grounds, and then talked privately with those who had been impressed.
On the other hand, the thick layer of fallen leaves on the ground, and the bulk of the stems of the forest trees are bluish brown and russet, thus closely resembling the decaying leaves in an European forest after heavy rain; while the whole effect is precisely similar to that produced by the russet head and body and the striped thighs and limbs of the okapi.
There can be quite a color variation in this species, from a light creamy brown to rich russet.