Triumphant Hall Mulberry

Latin triumphāns, celebrating victory — present-participle of triumphāre. As a color modifier, triumphant implies a saturated-and-celebratory-and-victorious quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Imperial-period triumphal-arch spolia relief and Arch-of-Titus victory imagery. Sits at the bold-and-celebratory end of the grid, parallel to victorious and conquering.

Old English heall, large-room / mansion. As a color modifier, hall implies a great-room-and-banquet quality, the visual register of Hampton-Court-and-Westminster hand-built timber-roof-and-stone-pillar great-hall ceremonial-and-dining surfaces under Tudor-and-Plantagenet great-hall ceremonial-feast candlelight. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to manor and court in usage.

The genus Morus — the white mulberry (M. alba) feeds silkworms; the black mulberry (M. nigra) bears the deep purple fruit that stains everything it touches. The color refers to a ripe black mulberry: a saturated, slightly red-shifted very deep purple with the slight juiciness of a compound fruit. Cooler than wine, warmer than indigo, with the agricultural weight of a tree that supported the entire Chinese silk industry for two thousand years.