Thesaurus: palette

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1. n. 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.
2. n. One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
3. n. A breastplate for a breast drill.
4. n. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
5. n. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
6. n. one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
7. 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.
8. A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole atone end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes hispigments. [Written also pallet.]
9. n:100 n. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art n. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used