Meaning of Pall | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Senses relating to cloth.
   archaic, poetic
2. Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
   archaic, poetic
3. A surname.
4. A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
   obsolete, rare
5. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
6. A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
7. A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
   obsolete
8. Senses relating to clothing.
   archaic
9. An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
   archaic
10. Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
    figuratively
11. Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
12. A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.

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Examples

“After his death he [Diocletian] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]”

“In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]”

“His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.”

“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.”

“The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.”

“Night has spread her pall once more, And the prisoner still is free: Open is his dungeon door, Useless now his dungeon key!”

“[…]and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.”

“By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]”

“Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.”

“The flag of South Africa has a green pall”

“Tho the Impatience of abſtaining be greater; the Pleaſure of Indulgence is really leſs. The Palls or Nauseatings which continually intervene, are of the worſt and moſt hateful kind of Senſation. Hardly is there any thing taſted which is wholly free from this ill reliſh of a ſurfeited Senſe and ruin'd Appetite.”

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