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Oct 14, 2010
This week's themeWords about colors This week's words sienna nankeen gamboge sinopia solferino 
A sinopia from Sinopie Museum, Pisa, Italy
Photo: Giovanni V.
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with Anu Gargsinopia
PRONUNCIATION:
(si-NO-pee-uh)
MEANING:
noun:1. A reddish-brown color or pigment. 2. A preliminary drawing for a fresco. ETYMOLOGY:
Via Italian and Latin, from Greek Sinope, an ancient colony and seaport in
Asia Minor where this pigment was found. The word acquired its second sense
from the use of the pigment in making preparatory sketches for a fresco.
USAGE:
"Lucrezia looked at the lively figures indicated in sinopia, and marveled
at the lifelike quality of their gestures."Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz; The Miracles of Prato: A Novel; Harper; 2010. See more usage examples of sinopia in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
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