pall
noun/pɔːl/
/pɔːl/
- [usually singular] pall of something a thick dark cloud of something
- a pall of smoke/dust
- (figurative) News of her death cast a pall over the event.
- a cloth spread over a coffin (= a box used for burying a dead person in)
Word Originnoun Old English pæll ‘rich (purple) cloth’, ‘cloth cover for a chalice’, from Latin pallium ‘covering, cloak’.
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