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sinoples

sinoples is the plural of sinople.

Meaning of sinople

Noun

sinople (countable and uncountable, plural sinoples)

  1. (obsolete) A shade of red; sinoper.
  2. (obsolete) Sinoper, a kind of red earth historically used as a pigment, originally imported to Greece from Sinope in Paphlagonia.
  3. Ferruginous quartz of a blood-red or brownish red colour, sometimes with a tinge of yellow, used to make the pigment sinopia.
  4. (obsolete) Vert (green).
    • 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

Questions about sinoples

What is sinoples the plural of?
Sinoples is the plural of sinople.

Words near sinoples in the dictionary

  1. sinopie
  2. sinopis
  3. sinopite
  4. sinopites
  5. sinople
  6. sinoples
  7. Sinopoli
  8. Sinopolis
  9. sinopulmonary
  10. Sinor
  11. sinorespiratory

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