palette knife

noun

In painting, a small, edge-less, more or less flexible steel blade used to mix paint on a palette and sometimes to apply paint to a surface.

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Meanings

nounpalette knife (plural palette knives)

plural palette knives

  1. In painting, a small, edge-less, more or less flexible steel blade used to mix paint on a palette and sometimes to apply paint to a surface.

Translations

Bulgarian мастихин
  • мастихин (mastihin)knife used in painting
Chinese Mandarin 調色刀 /调色刀
  • 調色刀 /调色刀 (tiáosèdāo)knife used in painting
Dutch paletmes
  • paletmesknife used in painting
Finnish palettiveitsi
  • palettiveitsiknife used in painting
French couteau à palette
  • couteau à paletteknife used in painting
Italian mestichino, spatola
  • mestichinoknife used in painting
  • spatolaknife used in painting
Japanese パレットナイフ
  • パレットナイフ (paretto naifu)knife used in painting
Korean 팔레트 나이프
  • 팔레트 나이프 (palleteu naipeu)knife used in painting
Lithuanian mentelė
  • mentelėknife used in painting
Polish szpachla
  • szpachlaknife used in painting
Russian мастихи́н
  • мастихи́н (mastixín)knife used in painting
Swedish palettkniv
  • palettknivknife used in painting
Ukrainian мастихі́н
  • мастихі́н (mastyxín)knife used in painting
Cite this entry
APA

palette knife. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palette%20knife

MLA

“palette knife.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palette%20knife. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “palette knife,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/palette%20knife.

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