pall
IPA: pˈɑɫ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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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Examples of "pall" in Sentences
- I can still recall the pall of fear that spread over the town.
- He then covers this host with a white card, called a pall, after which he covers the chalice and all with a square cloth or veil that matches the vestments.
- The pall is a small square of stiffened linen ornamented with a cross, which is laid upon the orifice of the chalice to protect its contents from flies or dust.
- [507] The pall is a sort of collar, made of lamb's wool, which every metropolitan is required to obtain from the Pope, and without which he cannot exercise his functions.
- But to me one of the most troubling aspects of the current administration's pall is the attempt by its followers to supress any kind of dissent, especially if it is laced with humor.
- Reynolds, the favourite of Edward II., but it also affords food for discussion, as there is no trace of the "pall" -- a Y-shaped strip of lamb's wool marked with crosses, a special mark of metropolitan dignity which was sent to each primate by the Pope -- on the vestments of the effigy.
- The government, meanwhile, was to auction 15 billion pounds in Treasury bills on Monday, a step that economists expected would draw in mostly domestic banks after the protests of the past couple of weeks appeared likely to cast an at least short-term pall on the investment climate in the country.
- It was almost impossible to people, in fancy, the tattered and neglected churchyard of Beaconsfield as it now is -- with those who swelled the funeral pomp of the greatest ornament of the British senate; to imagine the titled pall-bearers, where the swine were tumbling over graves, and rooting at headstones.
- The government, meanwhile, was to auction 15 billion pounds $2.5 billion in Treasury bills on Monday, a step that economists expected would draw in mostly domestic banks after the protests of the past couple of weeks appeared likely to cast an at least short-term pall on the investment climate in the country.
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