palette
PAL-it · noun
FrenchEnglish
Origin
Palette comes straight from French palette, taken into English with its spelling and sound largely intact.
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Related words
Palette is a doublet of pallet, meaning the two words trace back to the same French source but arrived in English as separate forms.