Triumphant Lintel Forest

Latin triumphāns, celebrating victory — present-participle of triumphāre. As a color modifier, triumphant implies a saturated-and-celebratory-and-victorious quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Imperial-period triumphal-arch spolia relief and Arch-of-Titus victory imagery. Sits at the bold-and-celebratory end of the grid, parallel to victorious and conquering.

Old English lyn-trigan, threshold-beam. As a color modifier, lintel implies a horizontal-load-bearing-beam-above-door quality, the visual register of Stonehenge-and-medieval-stone-lintel hand-cut horizontal-load-bearing stone-and-timber lintel-above-door architectural surfaces under medieval-stone-and-timber lintel-above-door light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to sill and truss in usage.

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.