Category:Palette

Pal"ette, n. Etym: [see pallet a thin board.]

1. (paint.)

Defn: 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)

Defn: one of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend Of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.

3. (mech.)

Defn: 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.