What's the difference between palette and palmette?

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.

Palmette


Definition:

  • (n.) A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

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