pall
/pɔl/ nom C2En français : drap mortuaire, poêle, pale, pairle
- 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
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Dans la bibliothèque
We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite.
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.
I took a cab after that and reached my brother’s rooms in Pall Mall, where I spent the day.
His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.
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