Cleansed Hoar Lagoon

Old English clǣnsian, to make clean — past-participle of cleanse. As a color modifier, cleansed implies a clear-and-purified quality where the hue has been stripped of any contaminating tint. Sits at the crisp-and-clear end of the grid, parallel to fresh and pristine in usage.

Old English hār, grey-with-age-or-hoar-frost. As a color modifier, hoar implies a grey-aged-and-hoar-frosted quality, the visual register of English-meadow-and-hedgerow-hoar hand-grey-aged-and-hoar-frosted English-meadow-and-hedgerow-hoar-and-frosted-pasture hoar-and-grey-aged-and-hoar-frosted surfaces under English-meadow-and-hedgerow-hoar-and-frosted-pasture Cotswold-and-Yorkshire-Dales-frost-pasture frosted-meadow-light. Sits at the modifier-and-weather end of the grid, parallel to rime and sleet in usage.

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.