(n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.
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Palette
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
(n.) A breastplate for a breast drill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(2) There are staggeringly beautiful shots of a Dutch landscape, filmed by cinematographer Dick Pope with a strong sense of Turner’s own colour palettes and visual style.
(3) However, nurturers of Britain’s nascent wine industry with an eye on an emerging market, where appreciation of wine is a status symbol, might hope that senior communist party palettes will have been tickled by the Ridgeview Grosvenor 2009, a sparking English wine originating in West Sussex.
(4) They are also known for space-saving devices such as utensils which pack neatly on top of each other in a stand, spatulas, palette knifes and ladles that use a weighted handle to avoid being placed on the countertop, thus saving cleaning.
(5) In Sacred Monsters , her 2006 duet with Akram Khan, she explored fluidity of Asian movement and the challenge of the spoken work: in Robert Lepage’s Eonnagata she moved towards experimental theatre, and in her subsequent collaborations with Maliphant she developed a rich new palette of rapt, inwardly focused dance.
(6) It's like giving an artist a palette that has an infinite number of colors, some of them invisible to the naked eye.
(7) From the Third Symphony (1985) onwards, the tuned percussion fades away and the palette becomes much more classical.
(8) When it comes to the all-important flipping stage, Lanlard tends to lose his nerve: he uses a palette knife instead, thereby forfeiting his chance to make a wish when the airborne pancake is caught in the pan.
(9) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
(10) While still warm, free the bread from the pan with a palette knife, leave to cool a little, then tear into pieces.
(11) According to the playwright David Eldridge, with whom Norris has frequently collaborated, "he is excited by all kinds of theatre, with a broad palette and very catholic tastes.
(12) A superb, dangerously over-worked, standing self-portrait, Painter Working, Reflection 1993 portrays the ageing artist wearing only unlaced boots, holding a palette and knife (he was left-handed), addressing the viewer like a silent actor; invariably paint applied imaginatively to the planes of walls and floor reads as though a leitmotif for the prevailing mood.
(13) Kallikrein was brought to the diagnostic palette of this study in order to include the distal segment of the nephron.
(14) Slide the palette knife underneath then flip the pancake over quickly and smoothly.
(15) "The dresses are very fitted silhouettes," she explains slowly, "and besides, I think I need to wear black to clean my palette."
(16) The Borinage inspired one of his first major works, The Potato Eaters , and its sootily dark palette, though it was not painted until 1885, after he had left the region.
(17) Gold hoop earrings, a black and white colour palette, cropped tops and red lipstick are becoming signatures .
(18) The seventies, always a favourite Prada decade, were also present in a killer colour palette of red, yellow, black and purple, sometimes on blinding prints.
(19) There was me, my husband, my husband's eight-year-old daughter, and our own two children: a baby who cried passionately each time I moved out of her line of vision, and her sister, older by 15 months, whose abundant hair exactly matched the electrifying palette of autumn in the pleasure gardens that year.
(20) Three series of palette stage regenerates were prepared by amputating both arms of juvenile axolotls in the mid-forearm, above the elbow, or close to the shoulder.