Pall

Noun

 * 1)  fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes
 * 2)  a cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church
 * 3) a heavy canvas, especially laid over a coffin or tomb
 * 4) * 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate (2006), page 150:
 * Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,

Derived terms

 * cast a pall
 * pallbearer
 * tarpaulin

Verb

 * 1) to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken
 * 2) *1918,, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
 * We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.

Adjectives for Pall
leaden; fearful; lurid; fleecy; universal; velvet; dark' motionless.

Verbs for Pall
cast—over; —cloaks; —descends; —disgusts; —enshrouds; —mantles; -—naus¬eates; —subdues; —veils.

Thesaurus
allay, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, blackout, blanket, bore, censorship, cerecloth, cerements, cloak, cloth, cloy, coat, cold water, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, cram, curtain, damper, disgust, drag on, drape, drapery, engorge, ennui, fatigue, fill, fill up, glut, go on forever, gorge, graveclothes, guise, hanging, hood, housing, hush-up, irk, iron curtain, ironbound security, irritate, jade, mantle, mask, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, repression, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, screen, seal of secrecy, security, shelter, shield, shroud, sicken, slake, smothering, stall, stifling, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, suppression, surfeit, tire, tire to death, veil, veil of secrecy, vestment, wear, wear on, weary, wet blanket, winding sheet, wraps

Etymology 1
pæll, from Latin pallium ‘cloak, covering’.

Etymology 2
Aphetism from appall.

Noun

 * Finnish: arkkuvaate
 * French: drap mortuaire (m),


 * Russian: покров на гробе

Noun

 * 1) ball

Noun
pall


 * 1) stool; chair without armrests or a back
 * 2) pallet; a movable platform, constructed to be moved by forklifts

Derived terms

 * stool
 * fotpall

Noun

 * 1) tent