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russet coat
[russet a.]
1. A coat of russet cloth or colour, typical of a humble or rustic condition.
1552Latimer Serm. (1584) 231 Though we bee very poore, and haue but a Russet coate. 1594Nashe Terrors of Night Wks. (Grosart) III. 279 Yet bow your knees to their leathern bagges and russet coates, that they may blesse you from the ambition of Tiburne.
attrib.1553M. Wood tr. Gardiner's True Obedience 59 b, His first wife, olde plaine russet cote Ione of the countri, good wife truth.
†2. A peasant, rustic; a homely person. Obs.
1568Skinner tr. Montanus' Sp. Inquisit. 86 Being but a plaine fellow and as a man would say a very Russet-cote. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 443 Disdaine not those that are base, thinke with your selues that russet coates haue their Christendome. 1597Pilgr. Parnass. iii. 277 Each earth⁓creepinge peasant russet-coate Is in request for his well-lined pouche.
3. A russet apple. Also attrib.
1602Lyly Wks. (1902) I. 492 Wee haue jenitings, paremayns, russet coates, pippines, able-johns. 1860Hogg Fruit Manual 21 Pitmaston Nonpareil (Russet Coat Nonpareil)... Skin dull green, covered with a thin yellow russet. |