Bulky Court Forest

Old Norse búlki, cargo / mass — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, bulky implies a saturated-and-massive-and-occupying quality where the hue takes up visual space with broad-and-heavy presence. Sits at the bold-and-weighty end of the grid, parallel to hefty and substantial in usage.

Old French cort, enclosed-yard. As a color modifier, court implies an enclosed-courtyard quality, the visual register of Inn-of-Court-and-Chinese-courtyard hand-built stone-and-tile-paved enclosed-and-formal courtyard-architecture surfaces under London-Inn-of-Court-and-Chinese-courtyard enclosed-formal architecture light. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to quad and yard 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.