Definition of "sinople"

sinople

noun
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. (mineralogy) Ferruginous quartz of a blood-red or brownish red colour, sometimes with a tinge of yellow, used to make the pigment sinopia.
4. (obsolete, heraldry) Vert (green).
  Quotations
  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
  Espinosa (Spain and Flanders) : Argent, a tree terrassé sinople, accosted by two wolves affrontés, sable […]
  1903, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, page 128
  This shield argent with three lions sinople (green) has remained the coat of arms of the House of Lannoy. The young knight built a home in the woods around the seigneurie of Lys.
  1984, Lucile Kathryn Delano, Charles De Lannoy, Victor of Pavia