PALETOT Pal"e*tot, n. Etym: [F. paletot, OF. palletoc, prob. fr. L. palla (see Palla) + F. toque cap, and so lit., a frock with a cap or hood; cf. Sp. paletoque.] (a) An overcoat. Dickens. (b) A lady's outer garment, — of varying fashion.
PALETTE
Pal"ette, n. Etym: [See Pallet a thin board.]
1. (Paint.)
Defn: A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments. [Written also pallet.]
2. (Anc. Armor)
Defn: One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Fairholt.
3. (Mech.)
Defn: A breastplate for a breast drill. Palette knife, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. — To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a picture. Fairholt.
PALEWISE
Pale"wise`, adv. (Her.)
Defn: In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.