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   palette

   /ˈpalɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colours.
   • ▪ the range of colours used by a particular artist or in a particular picture: "Pollock's hard, bright palette"
   • ▪ the range or variety of tonal or instrumental colour in a musical piece: "he commands the sort of tonal palette which this music needs"
   • ▪ (in computer graphics) the range of colours or shapes available to the user.
   • ▪ a small flat case containing several separate shades of eyeshadow or other make-up product: "our Essential Eyes palette has eight mix-and-match shades"

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the form pallet): from French, diminutive of pale ‘shovel’, variant of pelle, from Latin pala ‘spade’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • P

     3

   • A

     1

   • L

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   • E

     1

   • T

     1

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