Settled Cloak Kingfisher

The past participle of settle, to come to rest — used as a color modifier since the seventeenth century for hues that read as stabilized after a process. Settled green, settled brown: moderate saturation combined with optical permanence. Sits at the crisp-bucket alongside steady and composed.

Old Northern French cloque, bell-or-cape. As a color modifier, cloak implies a heavy-shoulder-mantle-and-bell-shaped quality, the visual register of Anglo-Saxon-and-medieval-cloak hand-heavy-shoulder-mantle-and-bell-shaped Anglo-Saxon-and-medieval-cloak-and-pilgrim-cloak cloak-and-heavy-shoulder-mantle surfaces under Anglo-Saxon-and-medieval-cloak-and-pilgrim-cloak Canterbury-and-Compostela-pilgrimage wool-cloak-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to cape and cowl 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.