单词 | pall |
释义 | pall 1 ![]() n. 1. A cover for a coffin, bier, or tomb, often made of black, purple, or white velvet. 2. A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb. 3. a. A covering that darkens or obscures: a pall of smoke over the city. b. A gloomy effect or atmosphere: "A pall of depressed indifference hung over Petrograd during February and March 1916" (W. Bruce Lincoln). 4. Ecclesiastical a. A linen cloth or a square of cardboard faced with cloth used to cover the chalice. b. See pallium. tr.v. palled, pall·ing, palls To cover with or as if with a pall. [Middle English pal, from Old English pæll, cloak, covering, from Latin pallium.] |
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