Pall
noun
A cloth that is spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb.
They draped a black pall over the coffin.
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Formal
Religious
noun
A feeling of sadness or gloom that affects a particular place, situation, or person.
His sudden death cast a pall over the celebrations.
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Disapproving
verb
To become uninteresting or boring, especially after a certain time or repetition.
The same old routine at work eventually began to pall.
Often appears as...
- pall on someone
- pall after a while
verb
To make less attractive or appealing.
His constant complaining has started to pall.
Often appears as...
- pall someone's enjoyment
- pall someone's interest
noun
A cloth that is spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb.
They draped a black pall over the coffin.
Usage tips
Formal
Religious
noun
A feeling of sadness or gloom that affects a particular place, situation, or person.
His sudden death cast a pall over the celebrations.
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To become uninteresting or boring, especially after a certain time or repetition.
The same old routine at work eventually began to pall.
Often appears as...
- pall on someone
- pall after a while
verb
To make less attractive or appealing.
His constant complaining has started to pall.
Often appears as...
- pall someone's enjoyment
- pall someone's interest
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Pro Tip 1/2Funeral Usage
The noun 'pall' is often associated with funerals and conveys a sense of respect and mourning.
The procession moved slowly, with the pall covering the casket.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Sensitivity
'Pall' in a funeral context is sensitive; it symbolizes tradition and honor in many cultures.
A white pall covered the tomb, as per the local customs.
Pro Tip 1/2Funeral Usage
The noun 'pall' is often associated with funerals and conveys a sense of respect and mourning.
The procession moved slowly, with the pall covering the casket.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Sensitivity
'Pall' in a funeral context is sensitive; it symbolizes tradition and honor in many cultures.
A white pall covered the tomb, as per the local customs.
Pro Tip 1/2Funeral Usage
The noun 'pall' is often associated with funerals and conveys a sense of respect and mourning.
The procession moved slowly, with the pall covering the casket.
Pro Tip 2/2Cultural Sensitivity
'Pall' in a funeral context is sensitive; it symbolizes tradition and honor in many cultures.
A white pall covered the tomb, as per the local customs.
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is the provenance of that data is directly from their servers. It doesn't mean that there's a group of company representatives sitting in a smoky room with the NSA palling around and making back-room deals about how they're going to give this stuff away. Now each company handles it different ways.
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there's one plan that's more important to then an arrest its lichen know this is where the reindeers have actually been palling with her feet with the hoofs I give picks him up in like love
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afternoon in mid-august you couldn't believe it it's pall of the reflections in the water are delightful as are the ripples is something about water that
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How we take back the...
is the provenance of that data is directly from their servers. It doesn't mean that there's a group of company representatives sitting in a smoky room with the NSA palling around and making back-room deals about how they're going to give this stuff away. Now each company handles it different ways.
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Reindeer Farmers in...
there's one plan that's more important to then an arrest its lichen know this is where the reindeers have actually been palling with her feet with the hoofs I give picks him up in like love
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afternoon in mid-august you couldn't believe it it's pall of the reflections in the water are delightful as are the ripples is something about water that
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Paul Lauterbur
American Scientist
By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!
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Laura Moser
American Author
In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.
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Philip Gibbs
British Journalist
From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.
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Angus Deaton
British Economist
I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.
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John Updike
American Novelist
The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.
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Charles Buxton
English Public Servant
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
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Paul Lauterbur
American Scientist
By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!
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Laura Moser
American Author
In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.
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Philip Gibbs
British Journalist
From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.
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Angus Deaton
British Economist
I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.
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John Updike
American Novelist
The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.
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Charles Buxton
English Public Servant
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
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