Substantial Shawl Royal

Latin substantia, substance — adjectival suffix -al, derived from sub-stāre (to stand under). As a color modifier, substantial implies a saturated-and-weighty-and-material quality where the hue carries visual mass and presence. Sits at the bold-and-weighty end of the grid, parallel to weighty and hefty in usage.

Persian shāl, long-folded-wrap. As a color modifier, shawl implies a Persian-Kashmiri-and-paisley-folded-wrap quality, the visual register of Persian-Kashmiri-and-paisley-shawl hand-Persian-Kashmiri-and-paisley-folded-wrap Persian-Kashmiri-and-paisley-shawl-and-Norwich-and-Paisley-loom shawl-and-Persian-Kashmiri-and-paisley-folded-wrap surfaces under Persian-Kashmiri-and-paisley-shawl-and-Norwich-and-Paisley-loom Mughal-Kashmir-and-Norwich-and-Paisley-loom paisley-shawl-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to stole and sash 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.