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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.