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[–] 2 points 6 months ago*

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.

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