pall
/pɔl/ noun C2- A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
- A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
- Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion. · 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.
- Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
- A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses. · The flag of South Africa has a green pall
Plural palls
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In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.
We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite.
I took a cab after that and reached my brother’s rooms in Pall Mall, where I spent the day.
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