Imagine, if you will, Bob Ross in a French artist’s beret, holding his pale white palette 🎨. Scraping a thin roll of paint onto his palette knife, about to add a shoreline and a waterfall. He’d look pretty silly with a pallet, eh?
Oh geez, I just looked up the etymology (palete: shovel and paîllete: bunch of straw but both Old French) and discovered a “pallet” can also be a layer of blankets on the floor! I’m going to hazard a guess those blankets would have originally been in the hayloft or in a field on a heap of straw.
That’s funny, in french both are palettes
And this is one of the times knowing french has thwarted my english spelling.
Imagine, if you will, Bob Ross in a French artist’s beret, holding his pale white palette 🎨. Scraping a thin roll of paint onto his palette knife, about to add a shoreline and a waterfall. He’d look pretty silly with a pallet, eh?
Oh geez, I just looked up the etymology (palete: shovel and paîllete: bunch of straw but both Old French) and discovered a “pallet” can also be a layer of blankets on the floor! I’m going to hazard a guess those blankets would have originally been in the hayloft or in a field on a heap of straw.
No, you’re a palette