Effulgent Tabard Turquoise

Latin effulgēns, shining-out — present-participle of effulgere, sharing root with fulgor (lightning). As a color modifier, effulgent implies a saturated-and-radiating-light-out quality, the bright color of Renaissance-Madonna halo-and-aureole gold-leaf-and-pigment emission. Sits at the bright-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to resplendent and radiant in usage.

Old French tabart, herald's-or-knight's-surcoat. As a color modifier, tabard implies a herald's-tabard-and-knight's-surcoat quality, the visual register of medieval-herald's-and-knight's-tabard hand-herald's-tabard-and-knight's-surcoat medieval-herald's-and-knight's-tabard-and-College-of-Arms tabard-and-herald's-tabard surfaces under medieval-herald's-and-knight's-tabard-and-College-of-Arms College-of-Arms-and-Bayeux-Tapestry heraldic-tabard-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to kilt and cape in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.