sinople
Noun
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Noun
sinople
- (obsolete) A shade of red; sinoper.
- (obsolete) Sinoper, a kind of red earth historically used as a pigment, originally imported to Greece from Sinope in Paphlagonia.
- (mineral) ferruginous quartz of a blood-red or brownish red colour, sometimes with a tinge of yellow, used to make the pigment sinopia.
- (obsolete, tincture) Vert.
- 1903, George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts
- In heraldry, sinople (the green of blazonry) also signified love, joy, abundance.
- 1903, George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts
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