Noun: palette
| Singular | palette |
| Plural | palettes |
Sample Sentences
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Use your mouse to select the colour you want to use from the circular colour palette.
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The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead. [2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:]
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She removed an eyeshadow palette from her bag.
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It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette. [2011, James Wedding, Dana Probert, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009, page 394:]
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For the San Francisco project, he whittled down the palette to a handful of key surfaces, chief among them French limestone, hard oak, and Danish brick—long, slender, stunning. [2026 May 26, Sam Cochran, “Feeling Zen”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 100:]
Nouns inflected like palette
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet. See: French Nouns '
palette'.