pall

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔl/, /pɑl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: Paul

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),[1][2] 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).

pall (plural palls)

1. Senses relating to cloth.
   1. (archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
   2. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
      • 1941, Rebecca West, “Dalmatia”, in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey through Yugoslavia in 1937, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1946, OCLC 717735276, page 153:

        After his death he [Diocletian] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]

   3. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
   4. (Christianity, obsolete) 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”).
2. Senses relating to clothing.
   1. (archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX, stanza 37, page 317:

        In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]

      • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 932900760, book V, stanza 24, page 246:

        His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.

   2. (figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear or gloom.

      The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.

      A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.

   3. (Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
      • 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section II. The Seventh Century.”, in The Church-history of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, untill the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: Printed for Iohn Williams, OCLC 3896305; The Church History of Britain, […] In Three Volumes, volume I, 3rd edition, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, […], 1842, OCLC 779226264, section 38 (What a Pall is), page 107:

        By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]

      • 1840, [Elizabeth Stone], “Needlework of the Dark Ages”, in Countess of Wilton [i.e., Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton], editor, The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages; including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, publisher, […], OCLC 7523191, page 66:

        Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.

   4. (heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses.

      Synonyms: cross-pall, pairle

• palliate

From the noun pall (“cloth”).[3]

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v], lines 48–49, page 134, column 2:

     Come, thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold.

Formed by aphesis from appal, appall (“(obsolete) to make pale; to weaken; to become weak; to lose flavour or become stale”),[4] possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall.

Alternatively, the word may be derived from Middle English pallen (“to diminish, impair, weaken; to become faint; to lose spirit”), formed by aphesis from apallen (“to become or make faint or tired; to become indifferent; to fade or cause to fade away; to dim, weaken; to become stale; to be frightened; to frighten; to become pale”),[5][2] from Old French apalir (“to become or cause to become pale”), possibly from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid; pale with fright, frightened; mouldy, musty”),[6] from palleō (“to be pale, turn pale; to be anxious or fearful; to fade or change colour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, *pelH- (“grey; pale”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives).

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
   • 1706 August 30, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preach’d in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet, August 30. 1706, London: Printed and sold by H. Hills, […], published 1707, OCLC 219971976, page 4:

     […] Reaſon and Reflection, which by repreſenting perpetually to the mind of Man the meanneſs of all ſenſual Gratifications, do, in great meaſure, blunt the edge of his keeneſt Deſires, and pall all his Enjoyments.

2. (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

   The liquor palls.

   • 1712, [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy (A Select Collection of English Plays; IV), Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton, and J. Balfour, published 1755, OCLC 938467960, Act I, scene iv, page 15:

     Beauty ſoon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the ſenſe.

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, OCLC 988016180, book I, page 1006, column 1:

     We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.

From the verb pall (“to make vapid”).[7]

pall (plural palls)

1. (obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
   • 1699, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury], An Inquiry Concerning Virtue: In Two Discourses, […], London: Printed for A. Bell [...] E. Castle [...] and S. Buckley, OCLC 837888670; republished as “Treatise IV. Viz. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit. […]”, in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes, volume II, [London: Printed by John Darby], 1711, OCLC 883651382, book II, part II, section II, pages 149–150:

     Tho the Impatience of abſtaining be greater; the Pleaſure of Indulgence is really leſs. The Palls or Nauseatings which continually intervene, are of the worſt and moſt hateful kind of Senſation. Hardly is there any thing taſted which is wholly free from this ill reliſh of a ſurfeited Senſe and ruin'd Appetite.

• pall (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Proto-Albanian *palei-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- 'to speak with a loud voice'. Cognate to Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻𐍉𐌽 (spillōn, “to proclaim”)[1].

pall (first-person singular past tense palla, participle pallë/pallur)

1. To cry, hee-haw.

• pa
• shpall
• fjalë

From either German Ball or Middle Low German bal.

• IPA^(key): /pˈɑlʲː/

pall (genitive palli, partitive palli)

1. (sports) ball

• jalgpall

Akin to Estonian paluma.

• (Courland) pallõ

pall

1. ask

From Proto-Finnic *paladak.

• (Courland) pa'llõ

pall

1. burn

From Old Norse pallr

pall m (definite singular pallen, indefinite plural paller, definite plural pallene)

1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

• “pall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse pallr

pall m (definite singular pallen, indefinite plural pallar, definite plural pallane)

1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

• “pall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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pall c

1. a stool; a chair without armrests or a back
2. (sports) a podium for prize ceremonies
3. a pallet; a movable platform, constructed to be moved by forklifts
4. a pawl (a pin in a ratchet gear)

   att stå pall

   to cope, to stand against pressure

5. (dated, slang) an apple

• fotpall
• lastpall
• mjölkpall
• palla
• pallbrytning
• palldragare
• pallning
• pallplacering
• pallplats
• pallvagn
• prispall
• stå pall

• pall in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

pall m (plural pallon)

1. tent

• lluest
• lluesty
• pabell

From Old Norse pallr, of uncertain origin.

pall m

1. Floor in stall or box.

• baspall
• stallpall

• flåor
• gólv