Mourning Gable Cobalt

Old English murnan, to grieve — present-participle of mourn, sharing root with Old Norse morna. As a color modifier, mourning implies the deep-and-funereal-and-formal-and-Victorian-mourning-period black-textile quality, the dark cool-formality of widow's-weeds-and-funeral-procession. Sits at the deep-and-funereal end of the grid, parallel to funereal and sepulchral.

Old French gable, triangular-end-of-pitched-roof. As a color modifier, gable implies a triangular-end-of-pitched-roof quality, the visual register of English-and-Tudor-and-Pennsylvania-Dutch-gable hand-built triangular-pitched-roof gable-and-dormer architectural surfaces under English-and-Tudor-and-Dutch gable-end light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to eave and truss in usage.

Element Co, atomic number 27 — German Kobold, goblin, named by miners who found the metal interfered with smelting silver ore. Cobalt blue is the cobalt-aluminate pigment introduced by Louis Jacques Thénard in 1802: a saturated, slightly green-shifted deep blue with the matte finish of mineral pigment in oil. Cooler than ultramarine, warmer than prussian, with the painter's weight of a pigment used by Renoir, Van Gogh, and Cézanne.