Hospitable Blink Lagoon

Latin hospitābilis, of-the-host — adjectival suffix -able. As a color modifier, hospitable implies a clear-and-cordial-and-welcoming quality where the hue carries the visual register of Bed-and-Breakfast and country-inn warm-cordial-host atmosphere. Sits at the crisp-and-cheerful end of the grid, parallel to welcoming and inviting in usage.

Middle Dutch blinken, to-shine-or-twinkle. As a color modifier, blink implies a quick-and-twinkling-and-on-off quality, the visual register of lighthouse-beam-and-firefly-blink hand-quick-and-twinkling-and-on-off lighthouse-beam-and-firefly-and-Morse-lamp blinked-and-quick-and-twinkling surfaces under lighthouse-beam-and-firefly-and-Morse-lamp coastal-headland-and-summer-meadow rotating-and-pulsed-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to wink and glint in usage.

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.