All 4 Uses of
palette
in
Jane Eyre
- One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.†
Chpt 13 *
- Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory — you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye; — What! you revert to Mr. Rochester as a model!†
Chpt 16
- The translation of a few pages of German occupied an hour; then I got my palette and pencils, and fell to the more soothing, because easier occupation, of completing Rosamond Oliver's miniature.†
Chpt 32
- Having said this, he took his hat, which lay on the table beside my palette.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(palette) a flat board or tray artists use to mix paints and to hold them as they paint
or:
the range of colors characteristic of a particular artist, painting, or school of art