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noun
: a knife with usually a flexible steel blade and no cutting edge used to mix colors or to apply colors (as to a painting)
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Use a palette knife or small offset spatula, smear pink and white frosting on cake to resemble flower petals.
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Torie Cox, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2023
A lot of times people will think of the palette knife or the mixing knife but painting knives come in a really wide variety of shapes and flexibilities.
—Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
The horror of Holocaust is a subject that has always exercised an irresistible force on his paintbrush and palette knife.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
In the mid-1860s, Cézanne was developing a new coarse painting technique, often using a palette knife to apply color.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
The Olaf Wieghorst Museum and Western Heritage Center hosts a closing reception from 5-8 p.m. Saturday for Arizona palette knife artist Dusty Kinman, whose work is on display at the museum.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
This exhibition still showcases his extraordinary atmospheric effects — a sunset in a wash of mauve oils, a squall rendered with a few strokes of a palette knife.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
The surfaces are nervous and brightly acidic in feeling; the paint, laid on with a palette knife, deliciously resembles cake frosting.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Using a small offset palette knife or a piping bag, spread the frosting over the cake layer and make a dam around it.
—Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2021
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Torie Cox, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2023
A lot of times people will think of the palette knife or the mixing knife but painting knives come in a really wide variety of shapes and flexibilities.
—Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
The horror of Holocaust is a subject that has always exercised an irresistible force on his paintbrush and palette knife.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
In the mid-1860s, Cézanne was developing a new coarse painting technique, often using a palette knife to apply color.
—Oscar Holland, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
The Olaf Wieghorst Museum and Western Heritage Center hosts a closing reception from 5-8 p.m. Saturday for Arizona palette knife artist Dusty Kinman, whose work is on display at the museum.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
This exhibition still showcases his extraordinary atmospheric effects — a sunset in a wash of mauve oils, a squall rendered with a few strokes of a palette knife.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
The surfaces are nervous and brightly acidic in feeling; the paint, laid on with a palette knife, deliciously resembles cake frosting.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Using a small offset palette knife or a piping bag, spread the frosting over the cake layer and make a dam around it.
—Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 17 Aug. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1760, in the meaning defined above
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“Palette knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palette%20knife. Accessed 27 Mar. 2023.
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