pall
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Senses relating to cloth: Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
- Senses relating to cloth: A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
- Senses relating to cloth: A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
- Senses relating to cloth: 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: An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
- Senses relating to clothing: Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
- Senses relating to clothing: Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
- Senses relating to clothing: A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
- A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
- Alternative form of pawl.
Verb
- To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
- To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
- To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
- Alternative form of pawl.
Proper noun
- A surname.
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