palette
/ˈpælɪt/ noun C1- A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- A set of colours available to be used (or mixed). · Use your mouse to select the colour you want to use from the circular colour palette.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
- A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray. · She removed an eyeshadow palette from her bag.
- A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
Plural palettes
From the library
There were collected and piled up all Albert’s successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy’s education, i.e., fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cooks, and Charles Leboucher.
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