Definizione monolingua

pall

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

1. to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

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

pall (plural palls)

1. (archaic) fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes
2. (Christianity) a cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church
3. a heavy canvas, especially laid over a coffin or tomb
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate (2006), page 150:

     Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]

Definizione dizionario pall

bara

coltre

drappo funebre

manto

sudario

Altri significati:

cloth laid over coffin

a heavy canvas, especially laid over a coffin or tomb

to make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken

(Christianity) a cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church

(archaic) fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes