Hospitable Lurk Turquoise

Latin hospitābilis, of-the-host — adjectival suffix -able. As a color modifier, hospitable implies a clear-and-cordial-and-welcoming quality where the hue carries the visual register of Bed-and-Breakfast and country-inn warm-cordial-host atmosphere. Sits at the crisp-and-cheerful end of the grid, parallel to welcoming and inviting in usage.

Middle English lurken, to-lie-hidden. As a color modifier, lurk implies a hidden-and-watching-and-shadowed quality, the visual register of forest-edge-and-alley-mouth-lurk hand-hidden-and-watching-and-shadowed forest-edge-and-alley-mouth-and-bridge-undercroft lurked-and-hidden-and-watching-and-shadowed surfaces under forest-edge-and-alley-mouth-and-bridge-undercroft Gothic-novel-and-fairy-tale-and-noir half-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to creep and prowl in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.