Bastioned Gold Royal

Italian bastionato, fortified-with-bastions — past-participle of bastion, derived from bastia (fortified-tower). As a color modifier, bastioned implies a saturated-and-fortified-and-projecting quality, the deep-rich color of Vauban-period military-fortress star-fort projecting-bastion stone-architecture. Sits at the bold-and-fortified end of the grid, parallel to fortified and buttressed.

Old English gold, gold. As a color modifier, gold implies a precious-malleable-metal quality, the visual register of hand-beaten-and-rolled-gold hand-beaten-gold-leaf-and-coin-and-bar Egyptian-and-Italian-Renaissance hand-beaten-gold-leaf surfaces under Egyptian-and-Renaissance hand-beaten-gold-leaf treasury-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to gilt and gloss 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.