The word "russet" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as an adjective to refer to something having a reddish-brown or dark brown color. For example: "The russet leaves on the trees were a beautiful sign of autumn."
Discarding her signature pared-down, urban yummy-mummy style, Samantha Cameron wore a russet silk sari with an ornate jacquard-woven gold border design.
Many have been forced to switch to cattle; others are experimenting with purple and yellow potatoes, beyond the staple russet.
He verges on whimsy at times, and there are purple patches: "A russet moon rose tonight, its reflection in the shattered lake ice like a blood-red Host on a wounded altar".Tongue in cheek?
In "Auf dem Gebirge…" the stage is covered in brown earth, an echo of the russet soil of a legendary Bausch version of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" from 1975.
Some people call me a God-king; some people call me a living Buddha; some people call me a demon it doesn't matter".Seated in a wicker-chair, in view of the Indian Ocean, Mr Rathana also wears monk's cloth in russet, where the Dalai Lama wears red.
There are ethnic designs and patterns (such as the tunic-like kurtas) and also Western clothes in traditional prints, like knee-length dresses in shades of red and russet.
Mammee apple, or mamey (Mammea americana), native to tropical America, produces a grapefruit-sized, rough, russet-skinned, edible fruit.
Synthpop soloists were a leading trope, with Victoria Hesketh aka Little Boots delivering magnificently with her debut album Hands, and russet-quiffed Elly Jackson aka La Roux sweeping all before her with "In for the Kill" and "Quicksand".
Later, I walked through the Remarkable Rocks in the midst of the blinding, horizontal rays of a blood-red sunset – the mangled, smoothed, russet-coloured stones glowing, reminiscent both of Henry Moore and mangled, beaten car parts.
There's also a large russet-red Darcey M case.
Cultural morning Housed in a russet-red Genoese mansion, the Musée Matisse (2) (00 33 4 93 53 40 53; musee-matisse-nice.org; 10am-6pm daily except Tuesday; entry €10) was funded by the artist himself.
