pall

IPA: pˈɑɫ

Senses relating to cloth.
(archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
(Christianity, obsolete) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
Senses relating to clothing.
(archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
(figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
(Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
(heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
(obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
A surname.

(transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
(transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
(intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

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