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sinopia ‎(plural sinopias or sinopie)

A reddish-brown ochre-like pigment, derived from sinople, used in traditional oil painting and as the cartoon for frescos.
The rough sketch (executed in sinopia) which underlies a fresco.
- 1985, Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages
  Today many of the sinopias have been uncovered by a method called stacco.
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 89:
  In the course of lifting the frescoes from the walls the restorers discovered Simone's full-scale working drawings (in red chalk made from iron oxide and known as sinopie) which lay directly beneath the painted plaster [...].

sinopia f ‎(plural sinopie)