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What does "pall" mean?

Pall: An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
  2. 3.(R. C. Ch.) Same as Pallium. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.
  3. 4.(Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  4. 5.A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson.
  5. 6.(Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
  6. 7.To cloak. [R.] Shak
  7. 8.To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisin.
  8. 9.To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury.
  9. 10.To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
  10. 11.Nausea. [Obs.] Shaftesbury.

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