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   Pall

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   noun

   • 1. a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. Similar funeral clothcoffin covering
   • 2. a dark cloud or covering of smoke, dust, or similar matter: "a pall of black smoke hung over the quarry" Similar cloudcoveringcloakmantleveilshroudlayerblanketsheetcurtaincanopy
   • ▪ something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear: "torture and murder have cast a pall of terror over the villages"
   • 3. an ecclesiastical pallium.
   • ▪ a Y-shaped charge representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium.

   Word Origin Old Englishpæll ‘rich (purple) cloth’, ‘cloth cover for a chalice’, from Latin pallium ‘covering, cloak’.

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   What is a pall cloak?

   • A pall was originally a coffin’s cloak. Now pall usually means that an event or situation is — literally or figuratively — covered in gloom, like disappointing news that casts a pall on your day. The noun pall comes from the Latin word, pallium, “covering or cloak.”

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   What does the word pall mean?

   • The noun pall comes from the Latin word, pallium, “covering or cloak.” This use of pall has come to mean "gloom" like your grandparents' not being there to celebrate with you that casts a pall over your graduation. The verb pall is used when someone or something becomes boring or less interesting over time.

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   What does palled on Me Mean?

   • 1. (often foll by: on) to become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to): history classes palled on me. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 n. 1. something that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom.

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   What does pallbearer mean?

   • , pallbearer - Pallbearer is based on pall, which was first a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. See also related terms for tomb. Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved. Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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   Definitions of pall. noun. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped. synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet. see more. noun. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle. see more. noun. a dark covering or cloud, as of smoke. see more. noun. a sudden numbing dread.

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   noun. a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb. a coffin. anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, especially with darkness or gloom. Synonyms: melancholy, veil, shroud, shadow, darkness, cloud. Ecclesiastical. pallium ( def 2b ). a linen cloth or a square cloth-covered piece of cardboard used to cover a chalice.

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