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Webster 1913 Edition
Palette
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. Hence, any other object, usually one with a flat surface, used for the same purpose.
[Written also
pallet
.] 4.
(Anc. Armor)
One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
Fairholt.
5.
(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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Palette
PALETTE.
[See Pallet.]Definition 2024
Palette
Palette
See also: palette
German
Noun
Palette f (genitive Palette, plural Paletten)
Declension
Declension of Palette
Synonyms
- (palette): Farbpalette
palette
palette
See also: Palette
English
Noun
palette (plural palettes)
- A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- 2011, James Wedding, Dana Probert, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 (page 394)
- It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette.
- 2011, James Wedding, Dana Probert, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 (page 394)
- A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
board
range of colors
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old French palete (pale + -ette (“diminutive”)).
Noun
palette f (plural palettes)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French palete.
Noun
palette f (plural palettes)
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{{rfdef}}. - (Jersey) pat (of butter)
Derived terms
- palette dé l'êpaule (“shoulder blade”)
- palette du g'nou (“kneecap”)