Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Russet \Rus"set\, n.
   1. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

   2. Cloth or clothing of a russet color.

   3. A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet
      color. --Dryden.

   4. An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the {English
      russet}, and the {Roxbury russet}.