palette
Palette is defined as a thin wooden or plastic board where artists hold small amounts of each color of paint they're using.
(noun)An example of palette is the paint-smeared piece of wood an artist painting in the park is holding and dipping their brush onto.
The definition of a palette is the range of colors used in a particular painting or by any person who uses color such as an artist, house painter or interior decorator.
(noun)An example of palette is Van Gogh using blues, greens and gold in his Starry Night painting.
See palette in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a thin board or tablet of wood, plastic, etc., often with a hole for the thumb at one end, on which an artist arranges and mixes paints
- the colors used by a particular artist or for a particular painting
Origin: Fr, dim. of pale, a shovel < L pala, a spade, shovel
See palette in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A board, typically with a hole for the thumb, which an artist can hold while painting and on which colors are mixed.
- a. The range of colors used in a particular painting or by a particular artist: a limited palette.b. The range of qualities inherent in nongraphic art forms such as music and literature.
Origin:
Origin: French
Origin: , from Old French, small potter's shovel
Origin: , diminutive of pale, shovel, spade
Origin: , from Latin pāla; see pag- in Indo-European roots
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