palette knife

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

   Broaderspatula

Questions about palette knife

What does palette knife mean?

palette knife means "a spatula used by artists for mixing or applying or scraping off oil paints".

Is palette knife a common word?

palette knife is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.