PALETTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palette mean? 

• PALETTE (noun)
  The noun PALETTE has 3 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: PALETTE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALETTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

palette; pallet

Hypernyms ("palette" is a kind of...):

ambit; compass; orbit; range; reach; scope (an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

palette; pallet

Hypernyms ("palette" is a kind of...):

board (a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose)

Sense 3

Meaning:

One of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

palette; pallette

Hypernyms ("palette" is a kind of...):

armor plate; armor plating; armour plate; plate armor; plate armour (specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire)

Holonyms ("palette" is a part of...):

body armor; body armour; cataphract; coat of mail; suit of armor; suit of armour (armor that protects the wearer's whole body)

 Context examples 

Having said this, he took his hat, which lay on the table beside my palette.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But she made a wry face at the prospect, and scratched away at her palette as if bent on vigorous measures before she gave up her hopes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver's miniature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"It isn't a mere pleasure trip to me, girls," she said impressively, as she scraped her best palette.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory—you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye;—What! you revert to Mr. Rochester as a model!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)