PALL

Pall

A pall is a cloth which covers a casket or coffin at funerals. The word comes from the Latin pallium, through Old English. It is also is a stiffened square card covered with white linen, usually embroidered with a cross, or some other appropriate symbol. The purpose of the pall is to keep dust and insects from falling into the Eucharistic elements in a chalice. The derivation is the same - the cloth is named after the presumed cloth which covered Jesus.

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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 piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
  4. A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
  5. A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  6. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
  7. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
  8. nausea

Verb

  1. To cloak.

Verb (etymology 2)

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


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