Definitions for palette knife

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

pal′ette knife`(n.)

  1. a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.

    Category: Fine Arts

Origin of palette knife:

1750–60

Princeton's WordNet

  1. palette knife(noun)

    a spatula used by artists for mixing or applying or scraping off oil paints

Wiktionary

  1. 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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