Lexicographical Neighbors of Russettings
Literary usage of Russettings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"Henry 'VIll. RUSSET. Reddish-brown, or grey. Russet clothes are indicative of
countrymen in Hall's " Satires," 1598. They are thence called russettings; ..."
2. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"Russet clothes are indicative of countrymen in Hall's Satires, 1598. They are
thence called russettings; and, in the notes to Singer's edition, it is said, ..."
3. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"They are thence called russettings; ... in the notes to Singer's edition, it is
said, " russettings are clowns, low people, whose clothes were of a russet ..."
4. The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and ...by William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1829)
"... pie- apple I have mentioned, the russettings are very fine for this purpose,
and they keep a long while : the Spitzen- lerg Pippin is a fine large apple ..."
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