Cleansing a palette makes perfect sense. You don't want to contaminate your new paints with residue from the old ones.
And another thing! It's "palate cleanser", not "palette cleanser". "Palate" is your sense of taste. You cleanse it so that you can better taste what comes next. The painting metaphor doesn't makes sense Again, wake me in eight years when the typo makes it into the dictionary
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In the grimdark future, all three homophones will be spelled "palit", so this distinction will no longer matter.
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brb drinking paint thinner as a palate cleanser
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