The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinople \Sin"o*ple\, n. (Min.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
Sinople \Sin"o*ple\, n. [F., fr. LL. sinopis. See Sinople a mineral.] (Her.) The tincture vert; green.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A shade of red; sinoper. 2 (context obsolete English) sinoper, a kind of red earth historically used as a pigment, originally imported to Greece from Sinope in Paphlagonia. 3 (context mineralogy English) ferruginous quartz of a blood-red or brownish red colour, sometimes with a tinge of yellow, used to make the pigment sinopia. 4 (context obsolete tincture English) vert.
Wikipedia
Sinople may refer to:
- Sinopia, or sinople, a dark reddish earth pigment
- Sinople (heraldry), a term for "red", and later "green" in heraldry
Usage examples of "sinople".
But the polar differences in personality between mother and son are manifest in the articulation and intensity of gaze, in the dimming and crystallizing of those sinople eyes.
In memory of her he has quartered his own arms with those of Des Touches, which are: party couped, tranche and taille or and sinople, on the latter two eagles argent.
In the lower field a terce of lanciers, shaking unsheathed shafts, their arms crossed in saltire, embusked, sinople.