Conquering Tower Crimson

Latin conquīrere, to seek thoroughly — present-participle of conquer. As a color modifier, conquering implies a saturated-and-overwhelming-and-victorious quality where the hue overcomes neighboring colors through pure pigmentation strength. Sits at the bold-and-celebratory end of the grid, parallel to triumphant and dominant.

Latin turris, tower. As a color modifier, tower implies a tall-fortified-or-cathedral-tower quality, the visual register of Tower-of-London-and-Italian-bell-tower hand-built tall-fortified-or-bell-tower medieval-and-Renaissance-tower architectural surfaces under medieval-and-Renaissance tower-and-belfry monumental light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to turret and keep 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.