russet

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
russet/ˈrʌsɪt/

▶adjective

• 1 reddish brown.

• 2 archaic rustic; homely.

▶noun

• 1 a reddish-brown colour.

• 2 a dessert apple of a variety with a slightly rough greenish-brown skin.

• 3 historical a coarse homespun reddish-brown or grey cloth.

– derivatives
russety adjective.

– origin ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. var. of OFr. rousset, dimin. of rous ‘red’, from Provençal ros, from L. russus ‘red’.