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Definition of Sinopis
1. Noun. A red ocher formerly used as a pigment.
Definition of Sinopis
1. reddish-brown pigment [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinopis
Literary usage of Sinopis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"Taking both kinds together, some are native colours, and others are artificial.
sinopis, rubrica ... sinopis : ELEVEN REMEDIES. ..."
2. The History of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1830)
"sinopis is the red substance now known by the name of ... The most famous variety
of sinopis was from the isle of Lemnos; it was sold sealed and stamped ..."
3. The History of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1830)
"The austere colours used by the ancient painters were of two kinds, native and
artificial. The native were sinopis, rubrica, ..."
4. Materials for a History of Oil Painting by Charles Lock Eastlake (1847)
"Again; " sinopis is otherwise composed of madder and the lake above described,"f
viz. a ... (fourteenth century) before quoted, sinopis is described as a ..."
5. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"... sinopis, genus coloris est. a ... 1 'sinopis, a redde stone commonly called
... stone red of coulour, sinopis ..."
6. The Chemistry of Paints and Painting by Arthur Herbert Church (1901)
"Even in England, such a pigment is almost certainly referred to, under the
name 'sinopis,' in the middle of the fourteenth century. ..."
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