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pallet knife

American  

noun

Cooking.
  1. a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.


pallet knife British  

noun

  1. a variant spelling of palette knife

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He paints quickly, applying thick strokes with a brush or pallet knife.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2016

It is physically impossible, for instance, rightly to draw certain forms of the upper clouds with the brush; nothing will do it but the pallet knife with loaded white after the blue ground is prepared.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin

Put the butter into a good-sized saute or omelet pan; when hot, turn the ingredients into the pan, and smooth it down with a pallet knife.

From Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer

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