Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ferruginous clay, sometimes used as a pigment. Also sinopite.
  • noun A kind of ferruginous quartz found in Hungary.
  • noun In heraldry, same as vert.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
  • noun (Her.) The tincture vert; green.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A shade of red; sinoper.
  • noun obsolete Sinoper, a kind of red earth historically used as a pigment, originally imported to Greece from Sinope in Paphlagonia.
  • noun obsolete, heraldry Vert.

Etymologies

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From Old French sinople, from Latin Sinōpis, from Ancient Greek Σινωπίς ("of Sinope").

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Examples

  • In the lower field a terce of lanciers, shaking unsheathed shafts, their arms crossed in sal-tire, embusked, sinople.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Ludwig knew at once, by the sinople reversed and the truncated gules on his surcoat, that it was Sir Gottfried of

    Burlesques 2006

  • Ludwig knew at once, by the sinople reversed and the truncated gules on his surcoat, that it was Sir Gottfried of

    A Legend of the Rhine 2006

  • Argent, a dexter sinople, and gules an azure field,

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • Argent, a dexter sinople, and gules an azure field,

    Burlesques 2006

  • The three mullets on a gules wavy reversed, surmounted by the sinople couchant Or; the well-known cognizance of the house, blazed in gorgeous heraldry on

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • The three mullets on a gules wavy reversed, surmounted by the sinople couchant Or; the well-known cognizance of the house, blazed in gorgeous heraldry on

    Burlesques 2006

  • French contemporaries, but they are of like kind; he has fine passages, charming ideas, but no well-ordered work; his colours are fresh but crude, like the colours of illuminations, blazons, or oriflammes; his nights are of sable, and his meadows seem of sinople, his flowers are

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • "Wherefore the greater folly would it be to follow him," saith one of the sixteen knights, "For nought should we increase thereby save only our own shame and hurt, and my Lady hath lost him through her own default, for well know we that he it was that lay within, for that he beareth a shield sinople with a golden eagle."

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

  • But and Perceval had borne his shield that was there within, of sinople with a white hart, Lancelot would have known him well, nor would there have been any quarrel between them, for he had heard tell of this shield at the court of King Arthur.

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

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