pall

See also Páll

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɔːl/
• (US) IPA: /pɔl/, /pɑl/

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  Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

Old English pæll, from Latin pallium ‘cloak, covering’.

Noun

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, […]

Derived terms

• cast a pall
• pallbearer
• tarpaulin

Translations

cloth laid over coffin

Finnish: arkkuvaate (fi) French: drap mortuaire (m), poêle (fr) m.

Russian: покров на гробе m.

Etymology 2

Aphetism from appall.

Verb

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.

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Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɑlʲː/

Noun

pall (genitive palli, partitive palli)

1. ball

Declension

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Swedish

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Noun

pall c.

1. stool; chair without armrests or a back
2. pallet; a movable platform, constructed to be moved by forklifts

Declension

Declension of pall

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pall	pallen	pallar	pallarna
genitive	palls	pallens	pallars	pallarnas

Derived terms

• (stool): fotpall

See also

• stå pall

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Welsh

Noun

pall m. (plural pallon) 

1. tent

Synonyms

• lluest
• lluesty
• pabell