palette

[ US /ˈpæɫət/ ]
[ UK /pˈælət/ ]
NOUN
  1. one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
  2. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
  3. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Get Started For Free Linguix pencil

How To Use palette In A Sentence

  • Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject NYT > Home Page
  • Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.
  • The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
  • It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • The subtle colour palette is another layer in the creation of a calm and relaxing area for catching up with work or with after party guests. The Hill House
  • His paintings feature bright intensities of color, unique contrast, relationships of space and a palette of approximately 100 pure, unmixed acrylics.
  • The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
  • The artistic palette of colors, on the other hand, includes additive colors which include red, green and blue.
  • His compositional palette incorporates atonal and nontonal elements, but within a primarily tonal framework. NYT > Home Page
  • The piece is illustrated with images that demonstrate the austere intensity of his work since then, exquisite abstract interiors and still lifes executed in his preferred palette of white, grey, light ochre and sienna.
View all
This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy