Etymology

palette

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Today it means: A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours. Full definition →

French palette
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  1. French · borrowed frompalette
  2. English todaypalette

Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.

Words from the same roots

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pallet

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.