Buttressed Charm Rose

Old French bouterez, thrusting-mass — past-participle of buttress, derived from bouter (to thrust). As a color modifier, buttressed implies a saturated-and-architecturally-supported quality, the deep-rich color of Gothic-Cathedral flying-buttress-and-rib-vault stone-architecture. Sits at the bold-and-fortified end of the grid, parallel to fortified and reinforced.

Latin carmen, song-or-spell. As a color modifier, charm implies a beguiling-and-enchanted-and-disarming quality, the visual register of Provençal-troubadour-and-Renaissance-courtly-charm hand-beguiling-and-enchanted-and-disarming Provençal-troubadour-and-Renaissance-courtly-and-Belle-Époque-salon charmed-and-beguiling-and-enchanted-and-disarming surfaces under Provençal-troubadour-and-Renaissance-courtly-and-Belle-Époque-salon candlelit-and-rose-scented-and-disarming drawing-room-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to grace and blithe in usage.

The Latin rosa, the Greek rhodon, the Persian gul — every European language has a different name for the same flower and the same color. Rose covers the spectrum from blush to fuchsia depending on the cultivar, but in pigment shorthand it means a cool, slightly bluish red — the inside of a damask petal, the dye that washes out of madder root.