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Definition of 'pall'English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
(archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
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(Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
(Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
* Fuller
- About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
(heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
- Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
* Shakespeare
- His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
(obsolete) nausea
- (Shaftesbury)
(senseid) A feeling of gloom.
- A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
- The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
Derived terms
* cast a pall
* pallbearer
* tarpaulin
Synonyms
* (heraldry) pairle
Verb
( en-verb)
To cloak.
- (Shakespeare)
Lady Macbeth: 'Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell' (Macbeth Act I Scene v lines 48–9).
Etymology 2
from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.
Verb
( en-verb)
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
* Atterbury
- Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
- The liquor palls .
* Addison
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
- We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.
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