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   Pall

   /pôl/

   

   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’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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