Sonorous Bliss Royal

Latin sonōrus, resounding — derived from sonus (sound). As a color modifier, sonorous implies a saturated-and-richly-vibrating quality where the hue carries the deep-resonance visual register of a cathedral-organ-pipe low-note. Sits at the bold-and-resonant end of the grid, parallel to resonant and deep in usage.

Old English blīths, joy-or-delight. As a color modifier, bliss implies a deep-joy-and-rapture-and-contentment quality, the visual register of Beatific-Vision-and-Elysian-Field-bliss hand-deep-joy-and-rapture-and-contentment Beatific-Vision-and-Elysian-Field-and-paradise-meadow blissed-and-deep-joy-and-rapture surfaces under Beatific-Vision-and-Elysian-Field-and-paradise-meadow heavenly-and-rapturous-and-blessed paradise-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to joy and mirth in usage.

The blue of European royal court dress and regalia from the late seventeenth century forward — the color of British peers' robes, French royal sashes, the lining of the crown-jewel cases. The color refers to a saturated, slightly violet-shifted blue with the matte finish of velvet or melton wool dyed to maximum intensity: deeper than cornflower, warmer than ultramarine, with the heraldic weight of a color reserved for monarchs and the official Crown.