Lush Page Royal

Middle English lush, possibly from lascious, lascivious — a word that drifted from sensual ripeness toward visual abundance. Used as a color word since the eighteenth century for the saturated greens of well-watered foliage and the deep saturated jewel tones of velvet upholstery. Used across the deep and bold buckets where the hue is simultaneously dark and vivid.

Old French page, young-attendant. As a color modifier, page implies a court-and-knight's-young-attendant quality, the visual register of English-and-French-Court-Page hand-stitched livery-and-tabard-and-page-cap court-and-knight's-young-attendant surfaces under English-and-French-Court-Page hand-stitched livery-and-tabard ceremonial-court light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to knight and squire 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.