Etymology

rousette

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Today it means: Any of a number of species of fruit bat, of the genus Rousettus. Full definition →

French roussette ← Old French reddish
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromreddish
  2. French · derived fromroussette“flying fox”
  3. English todayrousette

From French roussette (“flying fox”), from Old French reddish. Doublet of roussette and russet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.