russet

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He spoke of a hundred things that were of no importance: of the dress that she wore--russet, as it should be, for country girls, with the loose sleeves folded back above her elbows that she might handle the linen; her apron of coarse linen, her steel-buckled shoes.

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  1. noun A moderate to strong brown.
  2. noun A coarse reddish-brown to brown homespun cloth.
  3. noun A winter apple with a rough reddish-brown skin.
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  • His sleeves were russet, a hint of topaz silk gleaming in the slashes. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • This potato, known as the russet Burbank, was a mutation of the Burbank potato that the botanist had developed earlier. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • "I had rather," he once burst out impatiently, "have a plain russet-coated captain, that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than what you call a gentleman, and is nothing else. —  History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683
  • The russet was intended for their best dresses; the serge for common. —  Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
  • Walking alone came this Earl of Aquitaine, with a large retinue, into the hall where the barons of France stood according to their rank; in russet were the big Earl and his attendants, but upon the scarlets and purples of the French lords many jewels shone; as through a corridor of gayly painted sunlit glass came the grave Earl to the dais where sat King Philippe The King had risen at close sight of the new envoy, and had gulped once or twice, and without speaking, hurriedly waved his lords out of ear-shot. —  Chivalry
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  1. Middle English, from Old French rousset, from rous, red, from Latin russus; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English russet, from Old French rousset (= Italian rossetto), russet, brown, ruddy, hence also red wheat, etc., feminine roussette. a russet apple, a coarse brown cloth, russet (Middle Latin russetum), diminutive of roux, feminine rousse, reddish, = Provencal Catalan ros = Portuguese ruço = Italian rosso, from Latin russus, reddish (cf. Latin russatus, clothed in red); put for *rudtus, from √ rudh, red: see red.
  2. from russet, adjective
 

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