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russet (RUHS-it) - n., dark reddish-brown.
Also, a coarse homespun cloth of this color (dyed with woad and madder), clothes of this cloth, apples with a rough skin with this color, and potatoes with skin of this color. This one goes back to Anglo-Norman, from Old French rousset/rosset, used for both the color and the cloth, from rus/rous, reddish brown (and red hair) + diminutive ending, from Latin russus, akin to Latin ruber, red.
---L.
Also, a coarse homespun cloth of this color (dyed with woad and madder), clothes of this cloth, apples with a rough skin with this color, and potatoes with skin of this color. This one goes back to Anglo-Norman, from Old French rousset/rosset, used for both the color and the cloth, from rus/rous, reddish brown (and red hair) + diminutive ending, from Latin russus, akin to Latin ruber, red.
---L.
