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13:20 Aug 2, 2005
French to English translations [PRO]
Food & Dairy / tableware
French term or phrase: palette
S’y ajoute de plus en plus une grande diversité d’accessoires qui vont personnaliser davantage les tables. La société Apilco-Yves Deshoulières étoffe notamment ses gammes en proposant dans sa nouvelle collection Vatel, une assiette à mise en bouche et dans sa nouvelle collection Melody, un coffret composé d’une palette et de cinq coupelles à sauce de couleurs différentes (www.deshoulieres.com).

Is the palette something for tasting the sauces (in which case shouldn't there be five?) or perhaps a dish like an artist's palette on which the five little dishes are presented?
Mark Nathan
Local time: 12:31
English translation:Palette
Explanation:
I think 'palette', even if it just means 'artist's palette', would be good here as it would give the idea of the different-coloured sauces arranged on a flat surface and sounds attractive. (If there's going to be a picture alongside the translation then explaining exactly what it is is less crucial).
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Kim Sanderson
Local time: 11:31
Grading comment
Thanks everyone
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5Palette
Kim Sanderson
4 +2dasher or palet
DocteurPC
3platter
Rachel Fell


Discussion entries: 10





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
dasher or palet


Explanation:
see GDT
in alimentation - with the picture which makes it clear

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Note added at 6 mins (2005-08-02 13:27:02 GMT)
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sorry section: équipement ménager dans GDT
it is very much like an artist\'s palet

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Note added at 6 mins (2005-08-02 13:27:20 GMT)
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two ll in pallet in English


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DocteurPC
Canada
Local time: 06:31
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Brigith Guimarães
2 mins
agree  Elizabeth Lyons: Dasher must be British; I would use palette or plate which is close to what you originally suggested.
33 mins
neutral  Rachel Fell: dasher isn't British, as far as I know - a palette , perhaps, but a palette is very different from a pallet (a wooden packing thing)
7 hrs
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Palette


Explanation:
I think 'palette', even if it just means 'artist's palette', would be good here as it would give the idea of the different-coloured sauces arranged on a flat surface and sounds attractive. (If there's going to be a picture alongside the translation then explaining exactly what it is is less crucial).

Kim Sanderson
Local time: 11:31
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks everyone

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Enza Longo
27 mins
agree  RHELLER: yes, we use this word in English also - see other porcelain websites
37 mins
agree  Tamara Salvio: I might add 'dish,' e.g., "a palette dish and five sauce cups" - in any case I agree with keeping it as is
1 hr
agree  Anne McKee
3 hrs
neutral  Elizabeth Lyons: With respect to Tamara's suggestion, "palette plate and small or finger bowls". : )
3 hrs
agree  Rachel Fell: palette with 5 sauce pots
7 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
platter


Explanation:
a suggestion, as I can't see what it looks like - might do better if I could! I'm imagining it's a bit like the sort of thing you might get in an Indian restaurant with little pots with various chutneys and things in

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Note added at 9 hrs 22 mins (2005-08-02 22:43:26 GMT)
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platter with (little) sauce pots - ?

Rachel Fell
Local time: 11:31
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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