RUSSET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does russet mean? 

• RUSSET (noun)
  The noun RUSSET has 1 sense:

1. a reddish brown homespun fabric

  Familiarity information: RUSSET used as a noun is very rare.

• RUSSET (adjective)
  The adjective RUSSET has 1 sense:

1. of brown with a reddish tinge

  Familiarity information: RUSSET used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSSET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reddish brown homespun fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("russet" is a kind of...):

homespun (a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home)

• RUSSET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of brown with a reddish tinge

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wildly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, "I told you so! I told you so!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The other, clad in a dirty russet suit with a long sweeping doublet, had a cunning, foxy face with keen, twinkling eyes and a peaky beard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far and wide, on each side, there were only fields, where no cattle now browsed; and the little brown birds, which stirred occasionally in the hedge, looked like single russet leaves that had forgotten to drop.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was Jo's favorite refuge, and here she loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn't mind her a particle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestrated; but I found no pleasure in the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No gentleman were admitted, so Jo played male parts to her heart's content and took immense satisfaction in a pair of russet leather boots given her by a friend, who knew a lady who knew an actor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Little Teddy bore a charmed life, for nothing ever happened to him, and Jo never felt any anxiety when he was whisked up into a tree by one lad, galloped off on the back of another, or supplied with sour russets by his indulgent papa, who labored under the Germanic delusion that babies could digest anything, from pickled cabbage to buttons, nails, and their own small shoes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)