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:''This article describes the heraldic tincture vert. For other uses, see [[Vert (disambiguation)]].''
[[Image:Heraldic Shield Vert.svg|right|122px|Vert tincture]]
In [[heraldry]], '''vert''' is the name of a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] roughly equivalent to the colour "[[green]]". It is one of the five dark tinctures (''colours''). Vert is portrayed in black and white [[engraving]]s by lines at a 45 degree angle from upper left to lower right, or indicated by the use of '''vt.''' as an abbreviation.
Though the English term comes from the French word ''vert'' (''[[green]]''), in French heraldry this tincture has been referred to as ''[[sinople]]'' since at least 1415. In Old French, and in the earlier texts, ''vert'' meant "green" while ''sinople'' was a "red" color named for the mineral paint from which it acquired its name. It is not clear why the meaning of the word changed in French.
The colour vert has been adopted as a [[symbol]] of the [[Muslim]] faith and is one of the [[Pan-Arab colors]]. As a result, many [[Islam]]ic countries have a [[national flag]] containing a green stripe or have a flag with a green background. Vert is also common among the national flags of African countries; green is one of the [[Pan-African colours]]. Other countries have used the colour vert in their flags to represent the "greenness" of their lands and abundance of their nation.
The shortest [[blazon]] in the English language is "''Vert''", which is the blazon of the arms of Pupellin and the [[flag of Libya]].
Vert may represent [[emerald]]s or [[Venus]] (this planet is further associated with the metal copper in traditional [[Classical_planets_in_western_alchemy|alchemical/occultistic lore]]).
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==References==
*Brault, Gerard J. (1997). ''Early Blazon: Heraldic Terminology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries'', (2nd ed.). Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-711-4.
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[[Category:Heraldic tinctures]]
[[Category:Shades of green]]
[[ast:Sinople]]
[[ca:Sinople]]
[[es:Sinople]]
[[eo:Sinoplo]]
[[fr:Sinople]]
[[it:Verde (araldico)]]
[[hu:Zöld (heraldika)]]
[[ja:ヴァート (紋章学)]]
[[oc:Sinòple]]
[[pt:Vert (heráldica)]]