Pāl'ette, n.

n. [See PALLET.] 1. (Paint.) A thin, oval-shaped 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 elbow. Fairholt.

To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the pigments in certain order, according to the key in which the picture is to be painted. Fairholt.