palln.1
/pɔːl/, U.S. /pɔl/, /pɑl/ I. Cloth, or a piece of cloth.
1. Fine or rich cloth, esp. as used for the robes of persons of high rank; spec. purple cloth for such robes (cf. purple adj. 2a); a piece of this cloth. Now archaic and poetic.Frequently in collocation with purple.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > rich or costly
pallOE
ciclatouna1225
scarletc1250
tars1377
cockea1382
coccyn1382
coctin1382
Welsh scarletc1400
gold tissed1585
checklaton1596
cyclas1834
OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 33 Purpuram et sericum, pretiosas gemmas et aurum : pællas & sidan, deorwyrþe gymmas & gold.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1075 Se cyngc Malcolm & his sweoster Margareta geafon him myccla geofa & manega gærsama & eallon his mannan, on scynnan mid pælle betogen, & on merðerne pyleceon, [etc.].
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8173 All þatt wæde..wass..off þe bettste pall.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 1450 O schene nebschaft..þet schulde beon..i-schrud..wið pel & wið purpre!
?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) 425 (MED) Iosep feng þene nap; mid pal he was biweued.
c1390 King of Tars (Vernon) 358 in Englische Studien (1889) 11 42 In cloþ of riche purpel palle.
?a1425 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 238 (MED) Where is bicome cesar þat lord was of al? or þe riche man cloiþd in purpur and in pal?
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 2278 (MED) Þis twaylle y-bordryd abouȝt was Wt palle þe mountenesse ofe han hondbrede.
a1500 Pennyworth of Wit (Cambr.) 197 in Englische Studien (1884) 7 122 (MED) Sche put on hur a garment of palle.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 173 They bene yclad in purple and pall.
a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) i. xxviii Nor tender silks of purple, paul or gold.
a1680 R. Edwards Commonplace Bk. (National Libr. Scotl.) f. 78v Ve debat in a goun of pa.
a1700 Little Musgrave in J. Ritson Sel. Coll. Eng. Songs (1783) II. 215 The one of them was clad in green, The other was clad in pall.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 159 If pall and vair no more I wear.
1879 E. J. Pfeiffer Quarterman's Grace ii. 46 The vision it floated through was all Of a fair sweet woman dressed in pall.
1905 A. C. Swinburne Poems IV. 57 These half-born blossoms, born at once and dead, Sere brown as funeral cloths, and purple as pall.
1957 K. Rexroth Coll. Longer Poems (1968) 31 The leper king lies in a bed all Covered with purple and pall.
2. Christian Church. A cloth used on or at the altar, for any of various purposes. †(a) A cloth spread on the altar; spec. a corporal. Obsolete. †(b) A cloth or hanging for the front of an altar; a frontal. Obsolete. (c) A small piece of cloth placed on top of the chalice during the Eucharist, now usually consisting of a square pocket stiffened with cardboard. Cf. palla n. 2.
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society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > spread upon
pallOE
palla1706
pallium1865
society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > at front
hatchOE
frontal1381
pall?a1475
antepend1501
pendle1501
stole1513
suffront1516
altar cloth1522
front1533
altar front1539
antependium1594
fronton1749
altar frontal1836
altar facing1856
society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > eucharistic cloth > [noun] > to cover the chalice
pall?a1475
palla1885
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxiv. 468 Þær stod..arwurðe weofod, mid readum pælle gescryd.
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 92 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 302 Weouedes huy founden þreo; With rede palles huy weren i-heoled.
1448 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1907) 13 49 The folwyng partayne to the Alter of the Blessed Marie in le Jesan: Fyrst a palle of Rede wt lyonnes of gold embroudyd.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 33 A myncheon scholde not towche the palles [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. towayles; L. pallas] of the awter.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 7 For coleryng ed mendyng of the pall.
1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 32v/1 A woman sholde not touche the holy vessell of the auter, ne the palle.
1555–6 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 365 For mending of the paill that hingis befoir the hye altar.
1699 tr. L. E. Dupin Eccl. Hist. 11th Cent. IX. 95 Why the Chalice is usually cover'd with a Vail or Pale before the Consecration?
1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 63 The Linen with which they covered the blessed Eucharist, was called Corporal, the Pall, the Shrowd, Co-opertorium or Syndon.
1838 Coronation Service in W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1847) III. 83 The Queen..makes her first Oblation; which is a Pall or Altar-Cloth of Gold.
1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 283 The Altar's snow-white pall.
1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 355/2 The pall..may be a single piece of linen..or it may consist of two pieces of linen or hemp, between which a piece of cardboard is inserted for the sake of stiffening it.
1965 C. E. Pocknee Dearmer's Parson's Handbk. (ed. 13) v. 67 If this corporal is made of the right kind of linen and starched it forms the most satisfactory pall; and there is no need to resort to a stiffened square of fabric containing cardboard.
1998 Church Times 3 July 9/1 (advt.) Communion linen. The finest purificators, palls, corporals & lavabo towels.
3. A rich cloth spread on, over, or above something, as furnishing; a fine coverlet; a decorative hanging or canopy. Now archaic and rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun]
tapeta900
pallc1275
tapestry1434
hanging1485
baize1862
dhurrie1880
tile1960
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 9503 Wes þat kinewurþe bed al mid palle ouer-bræd.
c1300 St. Thomas Apostle (Harl.) 125 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 575 (MED) Me beddede hem so softe as me miȝte & palles vpe hem caste.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 3540 (MED) Eueri strete Was bihonged..Wiþ mani pal and riche cloþ.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 6680 (MED) I wolde fle Into the chambre forto se If eny grace wolde falle, So that I mihte under the palle Som thing of love pyke and stele.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 11007 In hir chambir apon a palle þei crouned hir with a corounalle.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 370 (MED) Hire bed was made..Myd pelles and myd riche cloþe.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 122 (MED) In the walle are cortynes and halles and palles of silke to be hongen and reysed.
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. C.vii Hangynge aboute the walles Clothes of golde and palles.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 359 Ane paill of gould sett witht pratious stouns sett abone the kingis heid quhene he sat at meit.
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 64 To beir the paill of velues cramase Abone hir heid.
1628–9 in A. J. Mill Mediaeval Plays in Scotl. (1927) 208 The staige of the west port..for towes and skeniȝe to the paell.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 364 With splendid palls the downy fleece adorn.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. iv. 57 Over the whole bedding was thrown a counterpane, or pall, of black velvet.
1858 W. Morris Judgm. of God 170 He sat beneath a broad white pall.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out i The mantelpiece..was draped by a pall of purple plush from which depended a certain number of balls.
1941 B. Miller Farewell Leicester Square ii. 55 He saw..the rickety fumed-oak wardrobe that sheltered his two suits, the table draped in its pall of dusty plush.
4. A cloth, usually of black, purple, or white velvet, spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. Also: a shroud for a corpse. Cf. pallbearer n.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > pall
pallc1400
mortcloth1497
hearse-cloth1522
hearse1530
pall cloth1541
bier-cloth1549
coffin-cloth1625
grave-cloth1646
death cloth1699
hearse-cover1885
c1400 Life St. Alexius (Trin. Oxf.) (1878) 566 (MED) Þat lich hy lete by-wake and shrude With palle.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 378 Palle, or pelle, or other clothe leyd on a dede body.
a1509 Ceremonies & Services at Court in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1807) I. 315 The first herse..coueryd with whit within the pale & parclose.
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. Bv A ryche pal to ly on ye corse late fro rome is come.
1538 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 43 Received of Edyth Honythorne for a knylle and the pall vj.d
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 90 Haueing hir corpis careit vpone the berares of ane coache be six barronis and led be horssis wnder ane murning pale.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 200 When the Coffin was put in, the black Velvet Pall that had cover'd it was thrown over it.
1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 3 May 2/1 His Pall was supported by the Gentlemen of the Council, and his Corps was attended to the Grave by the Lower House of Assembly.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. 232 Tear-blinded to the castle hall, Came as to bear her funeral pall.
1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 6 Mourning when their leaders fall, Warriors carry the warrior's pall.
1906 J. Davidson Holiday & other Poems 13 Bring a purple pall; Bury him in state.
1942 E. Langley Pea Pickers xii. 174 Her costume, another black one, had the uniquely awkward appearance of a pall on a coffin.
1998 Funeral Service Jrnl. July 13 (advt.) Suppliers of all types of Metal and Plastic Handles, Palls, Carpets and Trestle Covers.
II. A garment, a vestment.
5. A robe, cloak, or mantle, esp. one made of rich fabric. Now archaic and rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > made of specific material
pallOE
rug1591
matchcoat1612
abolla1700
kaross1731
buffalo-robe1804
posteen1815
korowai1820
izar1836
buffalo1840
thatch-cloak1844
parawai1847
kaitaka1882
muzhik1897
burka1898
suba1911
OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 257 Pallium, pæl, palliatus, mid pælle gescryd.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 451 Ȝef us peal [c1300 Otho pal], ȝeue us hors, ȝeue us haihe scrud.
c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 27 Ȝwere beon..Þi cendels and þi riche palles [v.r. purpelpalle]?
c1330 Lai le Freine in Smith Coll. Stud. Mod. Langs. (1929) 10 iii. 6 (MED) Þerin sche leyd þe child for cold, in þe pel as it was bifold.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Esther viii. 15 Mardoche..shynede in kingis cloþis..wrappid with a sylkene pal [a1425 L.V. mentil; L. pallio] & purpre.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 37 (MED) Whan this gallowus man toke hym by the skyrtis of his palle or mantyl he cryed vppon hym horriblely.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 232 ij doctorys with hym arayd with pellys aftyr þe old gyse.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 7 One of the ten Sibills..cumly clad in a pall of white sylk.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V8 In a long purple pall, whose skirt with gold, Was fretted all about, she was arayd.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 245 It is represented in the Figure of a woman, clothed with a Pall or linen frock.
1721 S. Croxall Fair Circassian (ed. 2) 51 A Crimson Pall, varied with Purple Hue, Of finest Silk she o'er his Shoulders threw.
1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 17 Divine Melpomene..Queen of the stately step, and flowing pall.
1824 Ld. Byron Beware! Beware vi, in Don Juan: Canto XVI 84 He sweeps along in his dusky pall.
1865 S. Evans Brother Fabian's Ms. 43 They..Laid by the sceptre, and crown, and ball, And the golden robe and the purple pall.
1883 H. E. King Bk. of Dreams 93 O robe star-strewn, embroidered, O royal purple pall! I loose you from my shoulders.
1913 C. J. Brennan Poems The northern witch, in clinging ermine pall, cast one last look along the shallow seas.
6. † b. spec. A robe or mantle put on the new monarch during a coronation ceremony. Obsolete.
a. Christian Church. = pallium n. 2a. Cf. also pallion n.1 Now historical.
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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > neck and shoulder garb > [noun] > pallium
palliumOE
pallionc1300
palla1387
superhumeral1712
arch-palla1842
omophorion1862
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [noun] > office of
archbishopric994
archbishophoodc1449
palla1552
archbishopship1556
archiepiscopalship1606
Graceship1612
grace1631
archiepiscopacya1680
archiepiscopate1792
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 113 (MED) Sampson þe archebisshop took wiþ hym þe palle.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 9 (MED) He wente toward Rome to fonge þe palle of þe pope.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 102 He [sc. Stigandus, Archbishop of Canterbury] vsurped his office, in-so-mech þat he used þe palle.
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 25 Offa worshiped Adulph bisshop of lichfeld with the archebisshops palle.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxi. f. cxliv This Palle is an Indument that euery Archebysshop must haue, and is nat in full Auctoritie of an archebyssop tyll he haue receyued his Palle of the Pope.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 79 After such tyme as the Pall of the Archb. of Lichfeild was taken from Lichfeild and restored againe to Canterbury.
?1570 Homelie against Disobedience & Wylfull Rebellion v. Sig. Iiv The Romishe ragge, whiche he calleth a Paule, scarce worth twelue pence.
1633 T. May Reigne Henry II iii. l. 585 What unwearyed Muse at large can tell..How Becket to the Pope resign'd his Pall?
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico iii. 54 Besides his Pall, the Popes Chamberlain, brought him from Rome, a Cardinalls hat.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 92 After Consecration he shall have the Pall sent him.
1744 J. Lewis Life R. Pecock 124 The Pall was tendered to him by his apocrisaries.
1848 A. Herbert in Todd's Irish Nennius Notes 5 The copier places York and Canterbury, the two palls or archiepiscopates of England, first and second.
1891 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. IV. 494 From a degradand of archiepiscopal degree the degradator shall first remove the pall.
1900 Dict. Nat. Biogr. at Wulfred He was consecrated in Canterbury at the time of the council of Acle in 805..and the next year received his pall.
2002 Tablet 3 Aug. 13/3 St Thomas Becket was apparently buried in his archiepiscopal robes consisting of alb, pall, chrismatic (whatever that is), mitre, stole, [etc.]
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > robes
kine-shrouda1250
Dalmatical1599
colobium1603
pluvial1621
pall1643
Dalmatic robe1838
Dalmatic1855
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > royal robe
colobium1603
supertunic1626
pall1643
Dalmatic1855
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 2 After this, he [sc. the Archbishop] put upon him [sc. Richard II] an upper vesture called a Pall, saying, Accipe Pallium.
1847 W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae III. 115 This now called ‘Royal Robe’ is the ancient pallium; the ‘open pall’ as it is called in the orders of Charles II and James II.
7. Heraldry. A charge representing the front half of an archbishop's pall, consisting of three bands in the form of a capital Y, charged with crosses. Also called cross-pall. tiercé in pall: (of a shield) divided into three parts, of different tinctures, by lines arranged like those of a capital Y (cf. tiercé adj.).
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > charge representing a pallium
pall1562
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 182 The fielde is Azure, a Paule Sable.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. ii. 193 The Field is Iupiter, a Staffe in Pale Sol, and thereupon a Crosse Patee Luna, surmounted of a Pall of the last, charged by 4. other like Crosses Fitched Saturne.
1766 M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry (1777) Dict. Pall, a figure like a Greek Υ, about the breadth of a Pallet: it is by some Heralds called a Cross-Pall.
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Shake-Fork, is in form like the Pall, but doth not touch the top of the shield, and is pointed at each end.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry x. 52 The Pall..in form closely resembles the letter Y.
1883 Chambers's Encycl. at Tiercé A shield may be tiercé in pale, in fess, in bend, in bend sinister, or in pall; all which, with other arrangements in tierce, are common in French heraldry.
1894 H. Gough & J. Parker Gloss. Terms Heraldry (new ed.) 439 Pall, as a charge it represents an ecclesiastical vestment known as the pallium... Argent, a bishop's pall sable; in chief a stag's head erased gules—Cunninghame, Scotland.
1909 A. C. Fox-Davies Compl. Guide Heraldry ix. 126 The pall, pairle, or shakefork is almost unknown in English heraldry, but in Scotland its constant occurrence in the arms of the Cunninghame and allied families has given it a recognised position among the ordinaries.
1969 J. P. Brooke-Little Fox-Davies's Compl. Guide Heraldry ix. 98 Since Fox-Davies wrote the pall has increased in popularity... A pall wavy is found in the arms of the Grand Union Canal Company granted on 24 June 1935.
III. Extended uses, chiefly from sense 5 and, more recently, from sense 4.† 8. A purple dye. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dye > types of dyes
pallOE
sanders1329
raddlea1350
nutgallc1450
bark1565
logwood1581
sanders-wood1615
catechu1682
cate1698
cachou1708
valonia1722
India wood1742
cutch1759
alizari1769
standard1808
iron buff1836
colorine1838
acid dye1840
garancin1843
French tub1846
suranji1848
morindin1849
water blue1851
union dye1852
indigo-carmine1855
hernant1858
pigment colour1862
rosaniline1862
rose aniline1862
bezetta1863
bottom1863
acid colour1873
paraphenylenediamine1873
indigo-extract1874
tin-pulp1874
phthalein1875
sightening1875
chrome1876
rose bengal1878
azo-colours1879
azine1887
basic dye1892
chromotrope1893
garance1896
ice colour1896
xylochrome1898
cross-dye1901
indanthrene1901
Lithol1903
vat dye1903
thioindigo1906
para red1907
vat colour1912
vat dyestuff1914
indanthrone1920
ionamine1922
Soledon1924
Solochrome1924
Solacet1938
indigoid1939
thioindigoid1943
fluorol1956
Procion1956
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) i. Introd. 26 Of þam bið geworhgt se weolcreada pæll [eOE Tanner tælgh; L. tinctura coccinei coloris conficitur].
9.
a. Something that covers or conceals in the manner of a pall or cloak. Now: spec. a dark cloud or covering of smoke, dust, etc.; (figurative) something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances
cloudc1430
palla1450
melancholya1475
downdraughta1681
Job's comforter1738
damper1748
killjoy1776
wet blanket1810
down-drag1814
chill1821
dismals1829
shadow1855
down1856
a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857
wet blanket1857
depressor1868
dampener1887
sorry-go-round1898
wet smack1927
bringdown1935
droopy drawers1939
big chill1943
party pooper1947
misery1951
party poop1951
grinch1966
downer1969
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > concealing
veila1382
palla1450
stole1590
mask1597
vapour1597
vizard1621
film1837
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 822 In grene gres tyl he be graue Putte hym in þi precyous pall, Coueytyse.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 130 (MED) There shal I yelde glory & worship for shame & repreef, a palle of preisyng [L. pallium laudis] for mornyng [cf. Isaiah 61:3].
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. viii. 203 (heading) Howe grace is to be hyd vnder the palle of humylyte.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFviiiv Vnder the pall of very mekenesse and simplicite.
1745 E. Young Consolation 104 By this dark Pall thrown o'er the silent World!
1835 J. Hogg Tales Wars Montrose II. 149 The sky was overspread with a pall of blackness.
1866 B. Taylor Winter Solstice in Poems 301 Too cold to melt its pall of snow.
1882 F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 438 Overhead by day and by night a murky pall of smoke.
1939 I. Asimov in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 45/2 Over all, an uneasy pall of silence, the silence of indecision, lay.
1961 Spectator 1 Dec. 824 The pall of piosity and ambition lifts from the family.
1992 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. iv. 2/2 A crater..identified as big enough to have created a global pall of dust to blot out the sun, was carved out of the Earth at exactly the right time.
b. to cast a pall over (also on): to envelop in an atmosphere of gloom or despondency.
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1822 C. B. Southey Widow's Tale 31 Those who live, and yet are dead In sin and trespasses——o'er whom Guilt casts a pall of tenfold gloom.
1896 Catholic World Oct. 84 His sudden death on the 24th of last February cast a pall of grief over thousands of hearts.
1947 J. Kerouac Let. 26 Aug. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 115 I'd love to have you out here, but don't want to cast a pall on wonderful Burroughsian plans.
2002 Newsweek 25 Feb. 40/1 That hardly settled the controversy now engulfing figure skating and casting a pall over the Games.
Compounds
C1. † pall-canopy n. Obsolete† pall clothing n. Obsolete† pall-cloud n. Obsolete
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the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > canopy
majesty1483
pall-canopy1875
1875 F. S. Haden Earth to Earth 52 The old English hearse or pall-canopy.
pall cloth n.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > pall
pallc1400
mortcloth1497
hearse-cloth1522
hearse1530
pall cloth1541
bier-cloth1549
coffin-cloth1625
grave-cloth1646
death cloth1699
hearse-cover1885
1541 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 154 Payd for iij stavys to bere ye pawle cloth.
1866 P. W. Lyman Hist. Easthampton 35 In her will she bequeathed $300 to the church and town, $35 of which, according to her direction, was expended in the purchase of a pall cloth.
1995 Plain Dealer (Nexis) 1 May 7B She made the funeral pall cloth that will cover her casket.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > with specific qualities
pall clothinga1400
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 5125 (MED) He dud on him pal cloþing [a1400 Vesp. O pall on him he did clething] And on his hond sett riche ring.
ΚΠ
1886 J. S. Corbett Fall of Asgard II. 28 To raise the storm that was to rive the pall-cloud that hung over Asgard.
C2. † pall-work n. Obsolete fine or richly woven cloth.
pall-holder n. now rare = pallbearer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > pall-bearer
bearer1603
pallbearer1707
pall-holder1769
pall-supporter1904
1769 J. Rowe Diary 22 Mar. in Lett. & Diary (1903) 184 I went to the Funerall of Henry Vassall... I was a Pallholder.
1832 New-Eng. Mag. 3 263/2 Two of the British commanding officers were pall-holders.
pall-supporter n. rare = pallbearer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > pall-bearer
bearer1603
pallbearer1707
pall-holder1769
pall-supporter1904
1904 N.E.D. at Pall sb.1 Pall-supporter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done on specific grounds
pall-workc1440
marli1821
needlepoint1925
c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) 645 Scho come in a veluet..Alle of palle-werke [v.r. pall-work] fyne,..Furrede with ermyne.
a1500 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Douce) 19 Of pillour, of palwerke [c1440 Thornton Wroghte with peloure and palle], of perre to pay.
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† palln.2
Obsolete. rare.
A feeling of disgust arising from satiety or distaste.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun] > disgust arising from satiety or insipidity
fastidie?a1425
pall1699
1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 164 The accompanying Palls or Nauseautings [sic] which continually intervene, are of the worst and most hateful sensation.
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pallv.1
/pɔːl/, U.S. /pɔl/, /pɑl/ I. Senses relating to the loss of strength, vitality, etc.† 1.
a. intransitive. To grow weak or faint; to lose strength, courage, vitality, etc.; to fail, fall away. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (intransitive)] > in quality or character
forworthc1000
wearc1275
spilla1300
defadec1325
pall?c1335
forlinec1374
sinka1500
degender1539
degener1545
degenerate1545
dwindle1598
degenerize1606
disflourish1640
deflourish1656
waste1669
tarnish1678
devolve1830
honeycomb1868
bastardize1878
slush1882
the mind > emotion > fear > dismay > lose heart or be dismayed [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of the heart
pall?c1335
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > become weak [verb (intransitive)] > of strength
pall1562
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > go wrong
mistimeOE
to come evil to pass1481
tread awry1524
mischance1552
to go wrong1592
pall1604
to go haywire1929
snafu1943
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 171 (MED) I poke, i pomple, i palle, i passe, As galliþ gome igeld.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 342 (MED) That on [sc. a love drink] is full of such piment, Which..makth a jolif herte in haste; That other biter as the galle, Which makth a mannes herte palle.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 292 (MED) His [sc. Saul's] grace, his myht, gan pallen & appaire.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 20216 (MED) Whan I herde hyr wordys alle, Off look and cher I gan to palle.
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 101 (MED) Whos eyen with drynesse standen, and pallen, they ben not hole.
a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) cii. 22 There at his hert woll pall.
1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid ix. E e ij Vnuicted strengthes begin to pal.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 9 When our deepe plots doe pall . View more context for this quotation
1688 W. Mountfort Injur'd Lovers i. i. 6 Why, palls your Spirit when I grant it freedom? Think to what envy'd Glory thou art climbing.
1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 8 June 1/4 The virtuous energies of man would then never pall, for the anticipation of enjoyment would add vigour to its efforts.
1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags III. ii. 23 She was brave with a bravery beside which many a man's high courage palled.
b. transitive. To enfeeble or weaken; to daunt, dismay, deprive of strength; to impair or diminish. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > be stupefied
stonya1382
palla1393
stoynea1464
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)]
awec1225
bashc1375
palla1393
argh1393
formengea1400
matea1400
boasta1522
quail1526
brag1551
appale1563
browbeat1581
adaw1590
overdare1590
dastard1593
strike1598
disdare1612
cowa1616
dare1619
daw1631
bounce1640
dastardize1645
intimidate1646
hector1664
out-hector1672
huff1674
bully1685
harass1788
bullyraga1790
major1829
haze1851
bullock1875
to push (someone) around1900
to put the frighteners in, on1958
psych1963
vibe1979
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > weakening > weaken [verb (transitive)]
unstrengea1225
unstrength?c1225
feeblea1340
affeeblea1400
weakc1400
affeeblishc1450
enfeeblisha1492
pallc1500
weaken1569
effeeblish?1572
unstrengthen1598
labefy1620
unnerve1621
unmasculate1639
unbrace1711
sinka1715
infirmize1751
slacken1778
exhaust1860
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 5486 (MED) Unkindeschipe..The trouthe of mannes herte it palleth, That he can no good dede aquite.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 3673 (MED) Ye palle the laurer, ye make the firses seede.
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) 1091 (MED) Greet Recours of ffemynynyte pallith of prynces the vertuous Corage, And Or ther tyme makith hem falle in Age.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) xviii The prolixitee Off doubilness that doith my wittis pall.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxx. f. lxxxxviiv His Knyghtes and Soldyours were tyred and palled with ouer watche and laboure.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxiv. 62 Which..did their harts so pall, That they cride for peace.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. E4v Tis not the name of Traitor paules me, Nor pluckes my weapon from my hand.
1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 302 A caprice which pawl'd fortune in such manner that she utterly turn'd tale.
1729 J. Harvey Life R. Bruce ii. 101 Their noble Breasts no Sense of Danger palls, Each Soul undaunted, as unmov'd the Walls.
1751 M. Leapor Poems upon Several Occasions II. 191 'Tis that which makes my feeble Hand go back, And palls the Rigour of its just Revenge.
1808 J. Cottle Fall of Cambria II. xix. 104 Such an hour, so merciless and harsh, Might pall the stoutest heart.
c. transitive. To make (the breath) inoffensive; to palliate. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > inodorousness > deodorize [verb (transitive)]
pall1547
unscent1632
deodorize1858
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xvi A remedye to pall or make swete the breth.
2. † a. intransitive. Of fermented or aerated liquor: to become flat, stale, or insipid, esp. by exposure to air. Obsolete.† b. intransitive. Of blood: to lose its vigour or vitality. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > become insipid [verb (intransitive)]
pall1440
appal1528
flatten1692
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [verb (intransitive)] > become flat or stale
pall1440
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 379 Pallyn, as ale and drynke, emorior.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.iiv Also yf your swete wyne pale drawe it in to a romney vessell for lesynge [a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) (2002) i. 125 Ȝiff swete wyne be seeke or pallid, put in a Rompney for lesynge].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 651/2 This drinke wyll pall (s'appallyra) if it stande vncouered all nyght.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. P3 A cup of dead beere, that had stood pawling by him in a pot three dayes.
1634 W. Habington Castara ii. 53 Sooner..then let pall So pure Canary.
1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 170 Lest such wines should pall and dye upon their hands.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > components of blood > [verb (intransitive)] > separate clot and serum
pall1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 651/2 I palle, as drinke or bloode dothe, by longe standyng in a thynge, je appallys.
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 785 When the Weather breaks the Blood palls, and like over-fermented Liquors is depauperated, or turns eager and sharp.
c. transitive. To render flat, stale, or insipid; to make stale. (literal and figurative) Now rare.In later figurative use with admixture of sense 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > render insipid [verb (transitive)]
disseason1582
pall1601
dead1611
deaden1683
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [verb (transitive)] > render flat or stale
pall1601
flatten1656
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. iii. sig. K4v Bountie forbids to paull our thankes with stay, Or to deferre our fauour after view.
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts i. i. sig. B The remainder of a single canne Left by a drunken porter, all night palde too.
1681 T. D'Urfey Sir Barnaby Whigg i. i. 3 'Twill pall the Wine, and give an unsavoury relish to my mouth all the night after.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 74 A Miracle..Their Joy with unexpected Sorrow pall'd.
1711 P. H. Impartial View Two Late Parl. 145 The fortunate issue of that Expedition had pall'd the Enquiry.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Brewing Leaving your Vent-Peg always open palls it [sc. March Beer].
1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 154 He palls enjoyment by excess.
1910 D. H. Lawrence in Eng. Rev. Oct. 378 The cuckoo and the coo-dove's ceaseless calling, Calling, Of a meaningless monotony, is palling All my morning's pleasure.
3. † b. intransitive. To lose relish or interest; to become satiated or bored with. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To satiate or cloy (the appetite, senses, etc.); to deprive (a person) of relish for something. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > satiate or surfeit
sadeOE
overcloy1527
satiatea1530
stuff1530
cloy1576
clog1590
surcloy1594
satea1616
clama1670
pall1680
stale1709
1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate iv. i. 36 Things got by strugling, bring the greater pleasure, when dull Consent but palls the Appetite.
1706 J. Addison Epil. in G. Granville Brit. Enchanters sig. A4 And pall the Sense with one continu'd Show.
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 321 For fear of too much palling his Appetite.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. xii. 479 He must not pall his readers.
1829 Examiner 355/1 Can even the choicest viands fail to pall the stomach?
1860 M. S. Cummins El Fureidis x. 95 This..would never have strengthened into a motive power,—it might even have sunk into indifference or been palled by satiety.
1993 A. L. Hall Delivia (BNC) 84 Palled by the bleak, dusty nooks of outer Dublin.., I expect the hospital to be yet a stranger place. But the shock of white corridors refreshes.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > be or become satiated or surfeited
sadeeOE
surfeit1558
pall1727
satiate1797
1727 C. Johnson Country Lasses i. i. 2 I'll travel over and taste every Blessing; nor wait 'till the tired Sense palls with Possession; but fly from Joy to Joy unsated.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxxiv. 154 If thy stomach palls with it—discontinue it from time to time.
1832 Examiner 673/2 The laity have done much wrong to the clergy in allowing it to..surfeit, and pall..with forbidden wealth.
4. To become less interesting, attractive, or appetizing, esp. through familiarity.
a. intransitive. Without construction.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > be or become wearisome or tedious > specific through familiarity
palla1704
a1704 T. Brown Satyr on Marriage in Wks. (1707) I. i. 87 Oh the virtue and grace of a shrill caterwauling. But it palls in your Game.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 2. ⁋1 Beauty is a Thing which palls with Possession.
1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 21 Now pall the tasteless Meats.
1856 W. Bagehot Shelley in Lit. Stud. (1879) 1 113 Languor comes, fatigue palls, melancholy oppresses.
1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God ii. ii. 210 Happiness may fly away, pleasure pall or cease to be obtainable.
1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xviii. 137 His position lost all its charm the instant the work began to pall.
1949 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Oct. 49 The play of fancy in his writings never palls, for it varies infinitely.
1989 Blitz Jan. 11/1 Roughing it in New York soon palled, so she headed for LA.
b. intransitive. With on, upon.
ΚΠ
1713 J. Addison Cato i. iv Beauty soon grows familiar..and palls upon the sense.
1792 Trans. Soc. Promotion of Useful Information 1 i. 2 When all the pomp and luxuries of high life have palled upon the senses, then the jaded minds of the cits are refreshed by ideas of breezes and trees.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 77 They would satiate us and pall upon our senses.
1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. xxiii. 236 The pastimes of the tilt-yard..began to pall on him.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 250 He always paid—sometimes as many as three or four pennies in the afternoon for the game seemed never to pall on little Publius.
1949 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 1 Feb. 9/2 (heading) Salad dressing diet palls on storm shut-ins.
1993 L. Pemberton Platinum Coast (BNC) 194 Two years of pandering to bloated businessmen and the nouveau riche did begin to pall on me.
II. Senses relating to making or becoming pale.† 5.
a. intransitive. To become pale or dim. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > grow dim or lose brightness [verb (intransitive)]
dima1300
fade13..
appal1393
duskc1430
pallc1450
cloud1555
pale1822
wane1832
film1844
dull1862
gauze1876
c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 150 (MED) I wolde that my Fooes fowr contrayre Iturnyd were vnto my frendis alle, That thus for payne doth my coloure palle.
1513 Lydgate's Troye Bk. (Pynson) iii. xxv. sig. Qvj/2 The name of whom shall pallen [a1420 Augustus 4258 passen] in none age But euer yliche, without eclypsynge shyne.
a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1839) 42 Mercy, how her hath a' palled when her hath come athort any of es playthings.
b. transitive. To make pale; to dim. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > make dim [verb (transitive)]
fordima1050
dima1300
indim?1520
pall1539
bedim1582
efisc1656
appale1686
defalcate1808
bedull1836
scumble1905
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > lose colour [verb (transitive)] > make pale
pale?a1425
palish1484
appalea1500
pall1539
pallify1576
empale1604
sickly1604
bepale1640
impallid1661
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) ii. xxi. f. 36v The men and women have the colour of their vysage pallyd [1541–1612 palled].
1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) i. met. v. 12 And Luciϕar palled by Φebus vpriseth.
c. intransitive. Of a person: to waste away, rot. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > be decayed > decay
to-dreseOE
forbraidc1220
perisha1382
fret1486
to fall awayc1510
decay1511
pallc1560
c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) 1030 Thus ye have kept your enemy here Pallyng more than seven yere.
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† pallv.2
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To beat, strike, or knock down.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down
to smite (a person or thing) to the groundc1250
weve13..
pallc1390
to knock downc1450
nolpc1540
call1729
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 499 Þei miȝte I-seo sone his polhache go and proude doun pallede.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 30 Þanne with þe firste pyle I palle [v.r. pulle; c1400 C textv.r. pallede] hym down.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 51 (MED) Þanne liberum arbitrium laccheth þe thridde plante And palleth adown þe pouke.
2. intransitive. To fight one's way through (an army, etc.). rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > contend with
acounterc1330
bargainc1375
battlec1399
rencontre1455
field1529
pallc1540
cope with1582
combata1592
to grapple witha1616
to give against ——1646
fight1697
contest1764
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 10022 Þai..Pallit thurgh the persans.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 11132 Þai mellit with the mirmydons..Put hom doun prestly, pallit hom þurgh, Slogh hom full sleghly.
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pallv.3
/pɔːl/, U.S. /pɔl/, /pɑl/ Chiefly poetic in later use.
transitive (usually in passive). To cover with or as with a pall; (formerly) spec. to drape with rich cloth. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with cloth or textile
clothec1369
pallc1440
clout1579
drapery1824
cloth1844
drape1847
bedrape1865
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 1287 (MED) Palaisez proudliche pyghte, þat palyd ware ryche Of pall and of purpure, wyth precyous stones.
a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) 10616 (MED) To palle [a1475 Vitell. Resoun..folkys so yt calle To shrowde hys falshede & tapalle].
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 8385 A halle..was pight vp with pilers all of pure stones, Palit full prudly.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. v. 50 Come thick Night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoake of Hell. View more context for this quotation
1718 T. Purney Chevalier de St. George iv. 30 The Dæmon's Chariot's wrapt in sulphry Clouds, And pall'd in Orcan Soot that mantling shrouds Its smouldring Fire's.
a1771 C. Smart Poems (1791) I. 46 Behold Arion—on the stern he stands Pall'd in theatrical attire.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 332 Why pall'd in state, and mitred with a wreath Of nightshade, dost thou sit portentiously?
1834 T. De Quincey S. T. Coleridge in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 690/1 Nature..so powerless and extinct as to seem palled in her shroud.
1869 Ld. Tennyson Holy Grail 844 I saw the Holy Grail, All pall'd in crimson samite.
1892 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. (1909) 187 A smile so like the dawn of doom That all the field was palled in gloom.
1999 J. Gallas Resistance is Futile 23 They wrapped Easy Blodstett in his tent. Gold flickered on his fingertips; his cashkey palled in canvas.
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n.21699v.1?c1335v.2c1390
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