Definition of: russet

(rus′it) noun
1. A color formed by combining orange and purple; popularly, any reddish– or yellowish–brown.
2. Russet cloth, clothing, etc.; hence, any coarse homespun cloth or garment; a country dress.
3. Russet leather.
4. A winter apple of greenish color, mottled with brown.
—adjective
1. Of a reddish– or yellowish–brown color.
2. Made of russet cloth; hence, coarse; homespun; rustic.
3. Finished, but not blacked: said of leather: russet shoes. [<OF rousset, dim. of rous <L russus reddish]
—rus′set·y adjective