• (RP, GA) enPR: rŭsʹĭt, IPA: /ˈɹʌsɪt/

russet

1. A reddish-brown#Adjective|brown color.

    

2. A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric.
3. A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin#Noun|skin.

   Synonyms: russeting

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4. A variety of potato with rough, dark gray-brown skin.

• French: roux
• Spanish: ocre, marrojizo, marrojiza, color teja

• German: Renette
• Spanish: reineta

russet

1. Having a reddish-brown color.
2. (archaic) Gray or ash-colored.
3. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
   • c. 1595–1596, W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), imprinted in London: By W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, OCLC 61366361 ↗, [Act V, scene ii] ↗:

     Hencefoorth my wooing minde ſhalbe expreſt / In ruſſet yeas, and honeſt kerſie noes.

4. The condition of leather when its treatment is complete#Adjective|complete, but it is not yet colored (stain#Verb|stained) and polish#Verb|polished.
5. (botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.

• French: roux, rousse
• German: rostbraun
• Spanish: marrojizo, marrojiza

russet (russets, present participle russeting; past and past participle russeted)

1. (ambitransitive, of apples, pears, etc.) To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.