palette : Idioms & Phrases

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Palette knife

  • noun a spatula used by artists for mixing or applying or scraping off oil paints
WordNet
  • 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.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913