Polished Gown Kingfisher

Latin polīre, to polish — past-participle of polish. As a color modifier, polished implies a clear-and-smooth-and-glossy quality where the hue carries the visual register of buffed-and-burnished smooth-finish surface. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to burnished and gleaming in usage.

Old French goune, long-loose-garment. As a color modifier, gown implies a Tudor-and-Elizabethan-and-formal-evening-gown quality, the visual register of Tudor-and-Elizabethan-and-Worth-couture-gown hand-Tudor-and-Elizabethan-and-formal-evening-gown Tudor-and-Elizabethan-and-Worth-couture-gown-and-Belle-Époque gown-and-Tudor-and-Elizabethan surfaces under Tudor-and-Elizabethan-and-Worth-couture-gown-and-Belle-Époque Hampton-Court-and-Maison-Worth-Paris court-and-couture-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to robe and frock in usage.

The family Alcedinidae — particularly Alcedo atthis, the European common kingfisher whose iridescent turquoise-blue plumage gives the color its name. The color refers to a male European kingfisher's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the iridescent satin finish of structurally colored feathers.