Patrician Dell Crimson

Latin patrīcius, of the noble class — derived from pater (father). As a color modifier, patrician implies a saturated-and-aristocratic-and-Roman-Republic quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Patrician-class toga and senatorial-livery hereditary-aristocratic dress. Sits at the bold-and-aristocratic end of the grid, parallel to senatorial and imperial.

Old English dell, small wooded valley. As a color modifier, dell implies a small-wooded-hollow quality, the visual register of Sussex-and-Kentish-Weald small wooded river-valley shaded-and-mossy hand-walked path-side surfaces in dappled-and-leaf-litter-strewn English woodland-light. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to glen and copse in usage.

From the Old Spanish cremesin, itself from the Arabic qirmiz — the kermes scale insect, dried and ground into a brilliant carmine dye prized in the medieval Mediterranean. For centuries the most expensive red on a draper's shelf, reserved for cardinals, kings, and the cloth that gave English the word crimson. Cooler than scarlet, deeper than rose; the color of pomegranate seeds and a serious occasion.