Etched Blank Kingfisher

German ätzen, to etch — past-participle of etch. As a color modifier, etched implies a clear-and-precisely-incised quality, the crisp color of Rembrandt-and-Dürer hand-pulled etching-print fine-line incised-image. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to engraved and inscribed in usage.

Old French blanc, white-or-empty. As a color modifier, blank implies an unmarked-and-empty-and-pristine quality, the visual register of fresh-page-and-primed-canvas-blank hand-unmarked-and-empty-and-pristine fresh-page-and-primed-canvas-and-white-room blanked-and-unmarked-and-empty-and-pristine surfaces under fresh-page-and-primed-canvas-and-white-room studio-and-stationer-and-gallery untouched-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to void and hollow in usage.

The family Alcedinidae — particularly Alcedo atthis, the European common kingfisher whose iridescent turquoise-blue plumage gives the color its name. The color refers to a male European kingfisher's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the iridescent satin finish of structurally colored feathers.