pall

Meanings

1. Senses relating to cloth.
2. Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
3. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
4. A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
5. 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”).
6. Senses relating to clothing.
7. An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
8. Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
9. Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
10. A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.

1. To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
2. To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

1. A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

1. Alternative form of pawl.

1. Alternative form of pawl.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium), probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).