Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Palette"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Palette \Pal"ette\, n. [See {Pallet} a thin board.]
1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a
thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter
lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also {pallet}.]
2. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates covering the points of
junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
--Fairholt.
3. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
{Palette knife}, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and
no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to
mix colors on the grinding slab or palette.
{To set the palette} (Paint.), to lay upon it the required
pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use
of them in a picture. --Fairholt.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
palette
n 1: the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or
painting or school of art" [syn: {pallet}]
2: board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix
paints and the range of colors used [syn: {pallet}]
3: one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of
armor [syn: {pallette}]
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