pall

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | 679 words | Copyright

pall¹ / pôl/ • n. 1. a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. ∎ fig. a dark cloud or covering of smoke, dust, or similar matter: a pall of black smoke hung over the quarry. ∎ fig. something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear: torture and murder have cast a pall of terror over the villages. 2. an ecclesiastical pallium. ∎ Heraldry a Y-shaped charge representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium. pall² • v. [intr.] become less appealing or interesting through familiarity: the novelty of the quiet life palled.

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