A pall was originally a coffin’s cloak. Now pall usually means that an event or situation is literally or figuratively covered in gloom, like disappointing news that casts a pall on your day.
Same as
Noun
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Noun
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
Noun
a sudden numbing dread
Verb
get tired of something or somebody
Verb
lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
Verb
become less interesting or attractive
Verb
lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"
Verb
cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
Verb
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
Verb
cover with a pall
Verb
cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
n.
Same as Pawl.
n.
An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
n.
A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
n.
Same as Pallium.
n.
A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and
having the form of the letter Y.
n.
A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a
coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
n.
A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on
one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
v. t.
To cloak.
a.
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose
strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
v. t.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless;
to dull; to weaken.
v. t.
To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
n.
Nausea.
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His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.2.
About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York.4.
Warriors carry the warrior's pall.6.
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Pall
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
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Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.2.
Pall
Same as
An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
To cloak.
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste;
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
Nausea.
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