Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sinople , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A brick-red ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.
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- noun mineralogy A brick-red
ferruginous clay used asred paint in ancient times.
Etymologies
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French, from Latin sinopis (sc. terra), a red earth or ocher found in Sinope, a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea.
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