Inviting Lone Kingfisher

Latin invītāre, to invite — present-participle of invite. As a color modifier, inviting implies a clear-and-cordial-and-encouraging quality where the hue carries the visual register of warm-inviting-and-encouraging entrance-foyer color tone. Sits at the crisp-and-cheerful end of the grid, parallel to welcoming and hospitable in usage.

Middle English lone, shortened from alone. As a color modifier, lone implies a solitary-and-singular-and-isolated quality, the visual register of Caspar-David-Friedrich-Wanderer-and-lone-pine hand-solitary-and-singular-and-isolated Caspar-David-Friedrich-Wanderer-and-lone-pine-and-Romantic-vista loned-and-solitary-and-singular-and-isolated surfaces under Caspar-David-Friedrich-Wanderer-and-lone-pine-and-Romantic-vista mountaintop-and-empty-shore single-figure-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to void and drear 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.