What is "palettes"

Usage examples of "palettes".

He had awakened first, and the other palettes had come into sequence, triggered by his.

Our palettes were scheduled to warm us after one year, but these have no timing mechanism that I can see anywhere … do any of you see a timing mechanism?

Formations grew out from the wall in a series of graceful curves that resembled the palettes used by artists.

From the edges of the palettes hung fine, banded draperies, shapes so elegant and fluid it seemed impossible they were made of stone.

The dinner plates she used as palettes were paint-free everywhere it mattered.

Nothing had been moved, the palettes were clean, the painting itself appeared no different.

Everything was in its place—the table, the chairs, the desk covered with books and papers, the cupboard with the brushes and knife carefully arranged on top, the easel propped against the wall, the clean palettes next to it.

Two would do for now I thought, though at home I would have several palettes ready for the different parts of a painting.

When Mayakovsky said, 'Let us make the squares our palettes, the streets our brushes,' he meant it.

She scooted behind a stack of empty loading palettes, and the pot exploded against them.

He was big and brawny, and made bigger by the iron palettes on his shoulders above his breastplate, the gorget around his neck, the brassards about his arms.

He probably presented such a bestial shape because he was still wearing his palettes and gorget under the cloak.