Definition: palette

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

palette
     n 1: the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or
          painting or school of art" [syn: pallet]
     2: board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix
        paints and the range of colors used [syn: pallet]
     3: one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of
        armor [syn: pallette]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Palette \Pal"ette\, n. [See Pallet a thin board.]
   1. (Paint.) 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) One of the plates covering the points of
      junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
      --Fairholt.

   3. (Mech.) 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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

palette

   colour palette