Bountiful Scorpio Royal

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Latin scorpio, scorpion-of-the-zodiac. As a color modifier, scorpio implies a scorpion-and-water-sign-and-Mars-Pluto-ruled-fixed-water quality, the visual register of Hellenic-Scorpio-and-Orion-myth-scorpion hand-scorpion-and-water-sign-and-Mars-Pluto-ruled-fixed-water Hellenic-Scorpio-and-Orion-myth-scorpion-and-Antares scorpio-and-scorpion-and-water-sign surfaces under Hellenic-Scorpio-and-Orion-myth-scorpion-and-Antares mid-autumn-and-October-and-November fixed-water-sign-light. Sits at the modifier-and-zodiac end of the grid, parallel to libra and sagittarius 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.