palette
Definition: A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - By Anne Bront
...He soon spied them out, and putting down the candle, deliberately proceeded to cast them into the fire : palette, paints, bladders, pencils, brushes, varnish : I saw them all consumed : the palette-knives snapped in two, the oil and turpentine sent hissing and roaring up the chimney ....
Color Studies - By Thomas Allibone Janvier
...palette before giving his assent to Rose 's alarmed proposition that death by poison must be the inevitable result of Caledonia 's unnatural repast . "...
Katharine Lauderdale - By Francis Marion Crawford
...Crowdie stuck one of his brushes through the thumb-hole of the palette, and with the other mixed what he wanted, dabbing it into the paints and then daubing them all together ....
The Eyes of the World - By Harold Bell Wright
...For some time the painter stood before the picture on his easel, without touching palette or brush, studying the face of the woman who posed for him ....
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket - By Honor
...During this day she remained more than once, her palette in one hand, a brush in the other, while the brush was undipped in the colors on the palette; her eyes fixed on the officer 's face, her lips slightly parted, she sat listening, ready to lay on the touch which was not given ....
The Passionate Friends - By Herbert George Wells
...every part of the world has its distinctive olfactory palette as much as its palette of colors--that rained daily and nightly upon my mind ....
Old Blackfriars - By Beatrice Marshall
...He took palette and brushes to repair the damage, but his head reeled as he mixed the colors ....
Woman Triumphant, La Maja Desnuda - By Vincente Blasco Ibanez, Hayward Keniston
...From instinct, from habit, he took up his palette and a brush stained with black, trying to trace the outlines of that figure ....
The Plunderer - By Henry Oyen
...The scene below him now resembled nothing so much as a painter 's palette streaked and splashed with all the bright primary colors and all their possible hues, shades and variations ....
The Great Masters of Russian Literature - By Ernest Dupuy
...Here there is material to tempt the palette of colorist most enamoured of the untouched -LRB- epris d'inedif -RRB- ....
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...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 ....
Barchester Towers - By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir
...But now he could not help regarding her somewhat as he did the marble workshops at Carrara, as he had done his easel and palette, as he had done the lawyer 's chambers in London; in fact, as he had invariably regarded everything by which it had been proposed to him to obtain the means of living ....
The Awakening - By Kate Chopin
...The quadroon sat for hours before Edna 's palette, patient as a savage, while the housemaid took charge of the children, and the drawing-room went undusted ....
The Old Wives' Tale - By Arnold Bennett
...But when Sophia bent over Madame Foucault, and touched her flabbiness, this illusion at once vanished; and instead of being dramatically pathetic the woman was ridiculous, Her face, especially as damaged by tears, could not support the ordeal of inspection; it was horrible; not a picture, but a palette; or like the colored design of a pavement artist after a heavy shower ....
Romola - By George Eliot
...And as for our Piero here, if he makes such a point of valor, let him carry his biggest brush for a weapon and his palette for a shield, and chaf...