Phrase guide

palette knife

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

In painting, a small, edge-less, more or less flexible steel blade used to mix paint on a palette and sometimes to apply paint to a surface.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: spatula

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Across languages

Translations

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: мастихин (mastihin) — knife used in painting
  • Chinese Mandarin: 調色刀 /调色刀 (tiáosèdāo) — knife used in painting
  • Dutch: paletmes — knife used in painting
  • Finnish: palettiveitsi — knife used in painting
  • French: couteau à palette — knife used in painting
  • Italian: mestichino — knife used in painting
  • Italian: spatola — knife used in painting
  • Japanese: パレットナイフ (paretto naifu) — knife used in painting
  • Korean: 팔레트 나이프 (palleteu naipeu) — knife used in painting
  • Lithuanian: mentelė — knife used in painting
  • Neapolitan: curtiello — knife used in painting
  • Polish: szpachla — knife used in painting
  • Russian: мастихи́н (mastixín) — knife used in painting
  • Swedish: palettkniv — knife used in painting
  • Ukrainian: мастихі́н (mastyxín) — knife used in painting