Replete Swirl Royal

Latin replētus, filled — past-participle of replēre. As a color modifier, replete implies a saturated-and-fully-pigmented quality where the hue is completely loaded with its source pigment. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to brimming and suffused in usage.

Middle English swirlen, to-whirl-in-eddies. As a color modifier, swirl implies a curling-and-eddying-and-spiraling quality, the visual register of Van-Gogh-Starry-Night-and-Hokusai-Wave-swirl hand-curling-and-eddying-and-spiraling Van-Gogh-Starry-Night-and-Hokusai-Wave-and-Art-Nouveau swirled-and-curling-and-eddying-and-spiraling surfaces under Van-Gogh-Starry-Night-and-Hokusai-Wave-and-Art-Nouveau brush-stroke-and-cresting-wave-and-vine-tendril nocturne-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to eddy and stir 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.