Buttoned Reap Teal

Old French bouton, button — past-participle of button. As a color modifier, buttoned implies a clear-and-fastened-and-formal quality, the crisp color of Edwardian-period formal-attire fully-fastened-and-formally-dressed gentleman's-attire. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and pressed in usage.

Old English rīpan, to harvest. As a color modifier, reap implies an autumn-harvest-and-sickle quality, the visual register of late-summer-and-early-autumn hand-reaping-and-binding wheat-and-barley harvest-and-sickle-and-sheaf surfaces under late-summer-and-early-autumn harvest-field raking-light. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to fall and harvest in usage.

Anas crecca, the small dabbling duck whose male in breeding plumage sports a chestnut head crossed by a glossy green-blue stripe. The color refers to that stripe — the iridescent panel just behind the eye: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical depth of structural color rather than pigment. Cooler than cypress, warmer than cerulean, with the ornithological specificity of a color named for one feather of one bird.