russet

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A moderate to strong brown.
• noun A coarse gray, brown, or reddish-brown homespun cloth.
• noun A winter apple with a rough reddish-brown skin.
• noun Any of various varieties of potato having reddish-brown skin, especially a russet Burbank.
• adjective Moderate to strong brown.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of a reddish-brown color: applied also to some light browns not reddish.
• Made of russet; hence, coarse; homespun; rustic: a use derived from the general color of homespun cloth.
• Made of russet leather.
• noun A reddish-brown color: a broad and vague term, formerly applied to various shades of gray and brown or ash-color, sometimes used restrictively, but in no well-settled sense.
• noun Coarse cloth, country-made and often homespun, used for the garments of peasantry and even of country people of some means: a term originally derived from the reddish-brown color of much cloth of this quality, and retained when the color was different, as gray or ash-colored.
• noun plural Clothes of russet; especially, the garb of a shepherd.
• noun In leather manufacturing, leather finished, but not polished or colored, except as colored by the tanning liquor; russet leather.
• noun A kind of winter apple having a brownish color, rough skin, and characteristic flavor.
• To give a russet hue to; change into russet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.
• noun Cloth or clothing of a russet color.
• noun A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.
• noun An apple, or a pear, of a russet color.
• adjective Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.
• adjective rare Coarse; homespun; rustic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric.
• noun Country dress; homespun cloth.
• noun A reddish-brown color.
• noun Variety of apple of russet-colored, rough skin.
• noun Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.
• adjective Having a reddish-brown color.
• adjective Gray or ash-colored (antiquated usage).
• adjective Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
• adjective "Condition of leather when it is finished, excepting the operations of coloring and polishing the surface." (From 1880s British/American dictionary.)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective of brown with a reddish tinge
• noun a reddish brown homespun fabric