pall
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1. pall - Noun
2. pall - Adjective
3. pall - Verb
4. Pall - Proper noun
Meaning
Same as Pawl.
An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
Same as Pallium.
A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
To cloak.
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
Nausea.
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
Pall on her temper, like a twice-told tale.
A sense of utter loneliness-loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness-enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless picture, and its pall of sadness can begin to weigh you down.
From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall!