pall
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- noun
- /pɔl/
- The mothers dismissed their worries, deciding that Miss Amy's retreat from their tea tables was due to her delicate concern that her mourning dress might cast a pall over their parlors.
- black pall
- white pall
- gray pall
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Examples
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The family chose a beautiful white pall to drape over their loved one's coffin during the funeral.
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It was odd, staring at the cross emblazoned in scarlet on the golden silk pall, how well I felt I knew a woman I'd never met.
Fiction book (1994) -
A wind came across the ocean, sweeping with it a pall of fine white ash.
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A gray pall of smoke hovered over every city in the Reich.
Fiction book (1991) -
The coffin, of unpainted wood, is so heavy and so large that twenty pall-bearers are required to carry it.
Blog text (22) -
By its light, he can make out a small house or cottage, and as he comes closer, he sees a pall of smoke blowing from the chimney.
Fiction book (1994) -
One still-burning streetlight has an orange pall of vapor around its glass globe.
Fiction book (1995) -
As the service began, a somber pall covered the room, reflecting the deep sorrow of the attendees.
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The church was adorned with a luxurious pall that contrasted beautifully with the flowers around the altar.
Synonyms
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A cloth used to wrap a dead body before burial
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A cloth that people use to wrap a dead body for burial
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A waxed cloth used to wrap a dead body for burial
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A cloth used to wrap a dead person for burial
A cloth used to wrap a dead body for burial
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
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An old lawn game where people hit a wooden ball with a mallet along an alley
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word pall comes from the Latin pallium, which means 'cloak' or 'heavy cloth'. At funerals this became the special cloth that covers a coffin, so a pall is the dark covering used in burials.