Saturated Tabard Bougainvillea

From the Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare, to fill. A technical color term in modern usage — saturation is one of the three axes of HSL (with hue and lightness). As a modifier, saturated implies that the hue is at or near its maximum chromatic intensity. Sits at the bold-and-bright top of the grid.

Old French tabart, herald's-or-knight's-surcoat. As a color modifier, tabard implies a herald's-tabard-and-knight's-surcoat quality, the visual register of medieval-herald's-and-knight's-tabard hand-herald's-tabard-and-knight's-surcoat medieval-herald's-and-knight's-tabard-and-College-of-Arms tabard-and-herald's-tabard surfaces under medieval-herald's-and-knight's-tabard-and-College-of-Arms College-of-Arms-and-Bayeux-Tapestry heraldic-tabard-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to kilt and cape in usage.

The genus Bougainvillea — South American vines named for the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville, whose 1768 voyage encountered the plant in Rio de Janeiro. The color refers to the bracts (modified leaves) of a vivid magenta Bougainvillea spectabilis: a saturated, slightly cool deep pink-magenta with the matte papery finish of bracts that surround the plant's tiny actual flowers. Brighter than fuchsia, cooler than coral.