pall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium), probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: palls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: palling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: palled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: palled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Senses relating to cloth.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
poetic
gloss: Senses relating to cloth.
pos: noun
examples: After his death he [Diocletian] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]
gloss: Senses relating to cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: Senses relating to cloth.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Senses relating to clothing.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]
His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.
gloss: Senses relating to clothing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.
Night has spread her pall once more,
And the prisoner still is free:
Open is his dungeon door,
Useless now his dungeon key!
[…]and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.
gloss: Senses relating to clothing.
pos: noun
examples: By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]
Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.
gloss: Senses relating to clothing.
pos: noun
examples: The flag of South Africa has a green pall
gloss: To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Come, thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold.
Related words: palliate
Derived words: cast a pall
inverted pall
pallbearer
pallbearing
pallholder
pall inverted
pall reversed
pallwise
reversed pall
tarpaulin
per pall
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