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pal·ette    Audio Help   [pal-it] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a thin and usually oval or oblong board or tablet with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters for holding and mixing colors.
2.any other flat surface used by a painter for this purpose.
3.the set of colors on such a board or surface.
4.the range of colors used by a particular artist.
5.the variety of techniques or range of any art: a lush but uneven musical palette.
6.the complete range of colors made available by a computer graphics card, from which a user or program may choose those to be displayed.
7.(in ancient Egyptian art) a somewhat flattish slate object of various shapes, carved with commemorative scenes or motifs or, esp. in the smaller pieces, containing a recessed area probably for holding eye makeup and often used as a votive offering.
8.Also, pallette. Armor. a small plate defending the front of the armpit when the arm is lifted; gusset.

[Origin: 1615–25; < F, MF < It paletta, dim. of pala shovel < L pāla; see -ette]

pal·ette·like, adjective
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pal·ette    Audio Help   (pāl'ĭt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A board, typically with a hole for the thumb, which an artist can hold while painting and on which colors are mixed.
    1. The range of colors used in a particular painting or by a particular artist: a limited palette.
    2. The range of qualities inherent in nongraphic art forms such as music and literature.


[French, from Old French, small potter's shovel, diminutive of pale, shovel, spade, from Latin pāla; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]

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palette 
1622, "flat thin tablet used by an artist to lay and mix colors," from Fr. palette, from O.Fr. palete "small shovel, blade," dim. of pale "shovel, blade," from L. pala "spade, shoulder blade." Transferred sense of "colors used by a particular artist" is from 1882.

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palette

noun
1. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art 
2. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used 
3. one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor [syn: pallette

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palette [ˈpӕlit] noun
a small flat piece of wood etc, with a hole for the thumb, on which an artist mixes his colours
Arabic: لَوْحَة ألوان الرَسّام
Chinese (Simplified): 调色板
Chinese (Traditional): 調色板
Czech: paleta
Danish: palet
Dutch: palet
Estonian: palett
Finnish: paletti
French: palette
German: die Palette
Greek: παλέτα
Hungarian: paletta
Icelandic: litaspjald
Indonesian: palet
Italian: tavolozza
Japanese: パレット
Korean: 조색판, 팔레트
Latvian: palete
Lithuanian: paletė
Norwegian: palett
Polish: paleta
Portuguese (Brazil): paleta
Portuguese (Portugal): paleta
Romanian: paletă
Russian: палитра
Slovak: paleta
Slovenian: paleta
Spanish: paleta
Swedish: palett
Turkish: palet
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palette
colour palette

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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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