One brought the envelopes on a palette and presented them.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
It is related that he powdered his waistcoat, let it fall in heaps upon the carpet, and even upon his palette, and it thus became mixed with his pigments and transferred to his pictures.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Where the deuce did I put that palette-knife?
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions