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Word: russet (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • "Condition of leather when it is finished, excepting the operations of coloring and polishing the surface." (From 1880s British/American dictionary.)
  • Gray or ash-colored (antiquated usage).
  • Having a reddish-brown color.
  • Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.

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Noun:

  • A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric.
  • A reddish-brown color.
  • Country dress; homespun cloth.
  • Variety of apple of russet-colored, rough skin.
  • Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.

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