Lordly Rain Ruby

Old English hlāford-līc, lord-like — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, lordly implies a saturated-and-aristocratic-and-haughty quality, the deep-rich color of pre-modern English-and-French manorial-aristocracy livery and hereditary-estate household-textile. Sits at the bold-and-aristocratic end of the grid, parallel to princely and patrician.

Old English regn, rain-or-shower. As a color modifier, rain implies a rain-shower-and-wet-and-Atlantic-front quality, the visual register of Atlantic-front-rain-and-monsoon-rain hand-rain-shower-and-wet-and-Atlantic-front Atlantic-front-rain-and-monsoon-rain-and-Lake-District-deluge rain-and-rain-shower-and-wet surfaces under Atlantic-front-rain-and-monsoon-rain-and-Lake-District-deluge Cumbrian-fells-and-Borrowdale-and-Snowdonia Atlantic-rain-light. Sits at the modifier-and-weather end of the grid, parallel to sleet and flurry in usage.

From the Latin ruber — simply, red. The gemstone is a chromium-tinged corundum, harder than anything in nature except diamond, and so saturated that a fine Burmese pigeon's blood ruby at auction outpaces a comparable diamond by weight. The color borrows the gem's confidence: a clear, glassy red without the brown of garnet or the blue of crimson.