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noun pɔːlpɔl 1A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. 棺罩；柩衣；墓布 Example sentencesExamples - During the mass, they covered the coffin with a pall, some kind of cloth. we took it off on the way out the door to the church, and then draped the American flag over his coffin.
- For his funeral the Archbishop's pall was borne by Sheffield steelworkers to his last resting place in the old churchyard in Bishopthorpe.
- There were immense black plumes at each corner and a black velvet pall covered the coffin.
- He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
- Ultimately, the only recognition Railton received was to see the bloodstained Union Jack he had used as a pall for temporary burials lowered over the coffin of the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey.
Synonyms funeral cloth, coffin covering 2A dark cloud of smoke, dust, etc. 〈喻〉乌云；（烟尘之类的）笼罩物 a pall of black smoke hung over the quarry 采石场上方笼罩着一片黑烟。 Example sentencesExamples - A naughty pall of mist has descended on the countryside, but it is far from sombre.
- There was an enormous pall of smoke everywhere.
- While a pall of acrid fumes spread over the town centre, police sealed off the area to shoppers and firefighters in four engines began tackling the blaze.
- I saw the fireball closely followed by the bang and the pall of smoke.
- Witnesses reported explosions as well as towering flames and a huge pall of black smoke at the scrapyard.
- The cost to the health of citizens who stand daily at the roadside in palls of deadly diesel fumes is incalculable.
- The most famous skyline in the world had been changed forever, and in its place hung a pall of smoke and dust in the clear autumn sky.
- It was a huge pall of thick black smoke billowing high into the air, west of the capital, that attracted our attention.
- The scene around him looked like the world's end - fire trucks and ambulances grinding their way across a white lake of dust and debris from which the pall of smoke still rose a few blocks away.
- And as the palls of smoke from the pyres on which animals are being incinerated spread, the livelihood of countless farmers hangs in the balance.
- The women on the left are sharply defined but a pall of dust or smoke from a fire obscures the features of those on the right.
- A heavy pall of dense black smoke and fumes poured from the building.
- More explosions followed and the pall of smoke grew.
- The city is sited at the foot of the Port Hills and when there is little wind a pall of smog lies over the city in winter.
- Instantly, a pall of black smoke belched out at them, enveloping them and turning everything dark.
- Pouring from the top of this volcano, like smoke out of a factory chimney, is a rapidly spreading pall of what looks like steam.
- The night was very dark; a pall of shadowy clouds obscured the moon.
- Huge thick palls of dirty black smoke stretched up into the orange evening sky from unchecked fires.
- Thankfully, the wind had died down, although it left a pall of greasy black smoke over the harbor area.
- Black palls of smoke were seen rising from the block adjacent.
Synonyms cloud, covering, cloak, mantle, veil, shroud, layer, blanket, sheet, curtain, canopy - 2.1 Something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom or fear.
〈喻〉阴郁（或恐怖）的气氛 torture and murder have cast a pall of terror over the villages 酷刑和杀戮使村庄笼罩在恐怖气氛之中。 Example sentencesExamples - And my learned friends will be throwing the pall of their caution over the theatre as well, to the impoverishment of all of us.
- Soon after, a Taoist priest comes along and informs Mr Tung that his house is ‘covered with a pall of malignant atmosphere’.
- For people who followed the game in person and on television, there was a pall of suspicion about the series from the very start.
- In the afternoon pall of a holiday weekend - everyone seems to have left the neighborhood, it seems - I went for a walk.
- A pall of misery hangs over the film until about the last 20 minutes.
- Despite a bulging schedule of films and the presence of filmmakers of renown, a pall hung over last year's Local Heroes Film Festival.
- The rain has stopped, but a gray pall still hangs in the air, claiming the day as its own.
- The pall has lifted, but all has not gone swimmingly with Rumania ever since.
- It's as though a grimy pall has been lifted off the city and a Bohemian spirit has returned once more to Bohemia.
- Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
- After the Fermanagh game, a pall of depression hung over the county.
- And so a pall of defeat, and a sense of wasted lives hangs over Christiane's story, for which her uneasy family reunion cannot quite compensate.
- I suppose he had that Presbyterian character that hangs like a pall over Scotland.
- A pall of shock and horror now hangs over the tiny community.
- I felt like today there was a pall over all of campus.
- The outcry over the case has thrown a pall over Scotland's justice system.
- It should have brought a pall of despondency to a wine industry that many claim is on the verge of glut.
- Yet, last Christmas, people enjoyed the first festive season in decades without the pall of war hanging over their heads.
- A pall descended on the Palace of Westminster, a kind of anxious ennui.
- But don't expect the multiple deaths to put a pall on the plot.
Synonyms spoil, take the fun/enjoyment/pleasure out of, cast a shadow over, overshadow, envelop in gloom, darken, cloud, put a damper on, mar, blight
3An ecclesiastical pallium. （神职人员的）白羊毛披肩带 Example sentencesExamples - In the twelfth place, the bishop puts on the Pall, to show himself that he imitates Christ, Who bare our sicknesses.
- The bishop's Pall typifies the wandering sheep, and the Prelate, when arrayed in this vestment, bears the image of the Saviour Christ.
- 3.1Heraldry A Y-shaped charge representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium.
〔纹章〕（白羊毛披肩带般的）Y形图案 Example sentencesExamples - The arms of the See of Canterbury (Plate I, Figure D) are ‘azure, an episcopal staff in pale or, ensigned with a cross pattée argent, surmounted of a pall of the last, edged and fringed of the second charged with four crosses pattée fitchée sable.’
- The arms of Dublin are virtually identical to those of Armagh, except that the Y-shaped pall has five rather than four black crosses on it.
OriginOld English pæll 'rich (purple) cloth', 'cloth cover for a chalice', from Latin pallium 'covering, cloak'. Rhymesall, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl verb pɔːlpɔl [no object]Become less appealing or interesting through familiarity. （因熟悉而）令人乏味；失去吸引力 the novelty of the quiet life palled 平静生活的新奇感失去了吸引力。 Example sentencesExamples - Her first enchantment with the dazzling array had quickly palled.
- What never palls, however, is the revelation of lifestyle and the personal family saga.
- But its extravagant sorrows and symphonic self-seriousness soon palled.
- So when the retail experience palls, you can go on safari.
- The stories never palled and the joy of reading them never faded.
- Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
- But the atmosphere soon palls as you're forced to follow a predetermined path through ALL the store's departments before you can check out.
- Eating out every night wasn't on, both for financial reasons and because even the best restaurant food palls after a while.
- However, I found the noise palled after a while.
- It all falls apart when each gratification palls in the face of mindless repetition.
- Occasionally, the sheer weight of detail palls, though Yates's style is always light and accessible.
- But such intensity quickly palled, and the Fitzgeralds grew disenchanted with the life they were leading.
- The concept starts to flag after a while, as Max's smooth chat palls before repeated atrocities.
- Perhaps England is beyond description, a country so unsure of its place in the world now that its present palls in comparison with its imperial past.
- But, surprisingly for someone who has experience of the former Soviet Union, Roxburgh overlooks the fact that the attractions of capitalism have palled for many people in the former socialist bloc.
- But for one man at least, the role of cheerless automaton seems to be palling.
- These days the only things I combine are various sorts of books, something that is good for my liver and, moreover, ensures my reading never palls.
- Tea has stayed with me as a drug of choice where others have palled or become unobtainable.
- There is, of course, a limit to how gripping a narration of running up a stairway can be, and this over-descriptive style palls after a while.
- But I want only this one night, for I am tired, and the game sometimes palls.
Synonyms become/grow tedious, become/grow boring, become/grow tiresome, lose its/their interest, lose attraction, wear off, cloy bore, tire, fatigue, weary, sicken, nauseate irritate, irk
OriginLate Middle English: shortening of appal. nounpɔlpôl 1A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. 棺罩；柩衣；墓布 Example sentencesExamples - For his funeral the Archbishop's pall was borne by Sheffield steelworkers to his last resting place in the old churchyard in Bishopthorpe.
- Ultimately, the only recognition Railton received was to see the bloodstained Union Jack he had used as a pall for temporary burials lowered over the coffin of the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey.
- He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
- During the mass, they covered the coffin with a pall, some kind of cloth. we took it off on the way out the door to the church, and then draped the American flag over his coffin.
- There were immense black plumes at each corner and a black velvet pall covered the coffin.
Synonyms funeral cloth, coffin covering 2A dark cloud or covering of smoke, dust, or similar matter. 〈喻〉乌云；（烟尘之类的）笼罩物 a pall of black smoke hung over the quarry 采石场上方笼罩着一片黑烟。 Example sentencesExamples - It was a huge pall of thick black smoke billowing high into the air, west of the capital, that attracted our attention.
- Pouring from the top of this volcano, like smoke out of a factory chimney, is a rapidly spreading pall of what looks like steam.
- Thankfully, the wind had died down, although it left a pall of greasy black smoke over the harbor area.
- Witnesses reported explosions as well as towering flames and a huge pall of black smoke at the scrapyard.
- And as the palls of smoke from the pyres on which animals are being incinerated spread, the livelihood of countless farmers hangs in the balance.
- Huge thick palls of dirty black smoke stretched up into the orange evening sky from unchecked fires.
- The night was very dark; a pall of shadowy clouds obscured the moon.
- The women on the left are sharply defined but a pall of dust or smoke from a fire obscures the features of those on the right.
- A naughty pall of mist has descended on the countryside, but it is far from sombre.
- A heavy pall of dense black smoke and fumes poured from the building.
- The city is sited at the foot of the Port Hills and when there is little wind a pall of smog lies over the city in winter.
- While a pall of acrid fumes spread over the town centre, police sealed off the area to shoppers and firefighters in four engines began tackling the blaze.
- The cost to the health of citizens who stand daily at the roadside in palls of deadly diesel fumes is incalculable.
- Black palls of smoke were seen rising from the block adjacent.
- There was an enormous pall of smoke everywhere.
- The most famous skyline in the world had been changed forever, and in its place hung a pall of smoke and dust in the clear autumn sky.
- The scene around him looked like the world's end - fire trucks and ambulances grinding their way across a white lake of dust and debris from which the pall of smoke still rose a few blocks away.
- Instantly, a pall of black smoke belched out at them, enveloping them and turning everything dark.
- More explosions followed and the pall of smoke grew.
- I saw the fireball closely followed by the bang and the pall of smoke.
Synonyms cloud, covering, cloak, mantle, veil, shroud, layer, blanket, sheet, curtain, canopy - 2.1 Something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear.
〈喻〉阴郁（或恐怖）的气氛 torture and murder have cast a pall of terror over the villages 酷刑和杀戮使村庄笼罩在恐怖气氛之中。 Example sentencesExamples - Despite a bulging schedule of films and the presence of filmmakers of renown, a pall hung over last year's Local Heroes Film Festival.
- Later, in a memorial service for the disaster's victims, Gustav sought to spread a pall of general bafflement over events, including the government's dereliction.
- In the afternoon pall of a holiday weekend - everyone seems to have left the neighborhood, it seems - I went for a walk.
- A pall descended on the Palace of Westminster, a kind of anxious ennui.
- It should have brought a pall of despondency to a wine industry that many claim is on the verge of glut.
- For people who followed the game in person and on television, there was a pall of suspicion about the series from the very start.
- The rain has stopped, but a gray pall still hangs in the air, claiming the day as its own.
- Yet, last Christmas, people enjoyed the first festive season in decades without the pall of war hanging over their heads.
- It's as though a grimy pall has been lifted off the city and a Bohemian spirit has returned once more to Bohemia.
- After the Fermanagh game, a pall of depression hung over the county.
- A pall of shock and horror now hangs over the tiny community.
- The pall has lifted, but all has not gone swimmingly with Rumania ever since.
- I felt like today there was a pall over all of campus.
- The outcry over the case has thrown a pall over Scotland's justice system.
- And so a pall of defeat, and a sense of wasted lives hangs over Christiane's story, for which her uneasy family reunion cannot quite compensate.
- I suppose he had that Presbyterian character that hangs like a pall over Scotland.
- A pall of misery hangs over the film until about the last 20 minutes.
- And my learned friends will be throwing the pall of their caution over the theatre as well, to the impoverishment of all of us.
- Soon after, a Taoist priest comes along and informs Mr Tung that his house is ‘covered with a pall of malignant atmosphere’.
- But don't expect the multiple deaths to put a pall on the plot.
Synonyms spoil, take the enjoyment out of, take the fun out of, take the pleasure out of, cast a shadow over, overshadow, envelop in gloom, darken, cloud, put a damper on, mar, blight
3An ecclesiastical pallium. （神职人员的）白羊毛披肩带 Example sentencesExamples - The bishop's Pall typifies the wandering sheep, and the Prelate, when arrayed in this vestment, bears the image of the Saviour Christ.
- In the twelfth place, the bishop puts on the Pall, to show himself that he imitates Christ, Who bare our sicknesses.
- 3.1Heraldry A Y-shaped charge representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium.
〔纹章〕（白羊毛披肩带般的）Y形图案 Example sentencesExamples - The arms of the See of Canterbury (Plate I, Figure D) are ‘azure, an episcopal staff in pale or, ensigned with a cross pattée argent, surmounted of a pall of the last, edged and fringed of the second charged with four crosses pattée fitchée sable.’
- The arms of Dublin are virtually identical to those of Armagh, except that the Y-shaped pall has five rather than four black crosses on it.
OriginOld English pæll ‘rich (purple) cloth’, ‘cloth cover for a chalice’, from Latin pallium ‘covering, cloak’. verbpɔlpôl [no object]Become less appealing or interesting through familiarity. （因熟悉而）令人乏味；失去吸引力 the novelty of the quiet life palled 平静生活的新奇感失去了吸引力。 Example sentencesExamples - What never palls, however, is the revelation of lifestyle and the personal family saga.
- Occasionally, the sheer weight of detail palls, though Yates's style is always light and accessible.
- The stories never palled and the joy of reading them never faded.
- But such intensity quickly palled, and the Fitzgeralds grew disenchanted with the life they were leading.
- Tea has stayed with me as a drug of choice where others have palled or become unobtainable.
- But I want only this one night, for I am tired, and the game sometimes palls.
- Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
- Eating out every night wasn't on, both for financial reasons and because even the best restaurant food palls after a while.
- But its extravagant sorrows and symphonic self-seriousness soon palled.
- However, I found the noise palled after a while.
- But, surprisingly for someone who has experience of the former Soviet Union, Roxburgh overlooks the fact that the attractions of capitalism have palled for many people in the former socialist bloc.
- It all falls apart when each gratification palls in the face of mindless repetition.
- Perhaps England is beyond description, a country so unsure of its place in the world now that its present palls in comparison with its imperial past.
- But for one man at least, the role of cheerless automaton seems to be palling.
- Her first enchantment with the dazzling array had quickly palled.
- There is, of course, a limit to how gripping a narration of running up a stairway can be, and this over-descriptive style palls after a while.
- But the atmosphere soon palls as you're forced to follow a predetermined path through ALL the store's departments before you can check out.
- These days the only things I combine are various sorts of books, something that is good for my liver and, moreover, ensures my reading never palls.
- The concept starts to flag after a while, as Max's smooth chat palls before repeated atrocities.
- So when the retail experience palls, you can go on safari.
Synonyms become tedious, grow tedious, become boring, grow boring, become tiresome, grow tiresome, lose its interest, lose their interest, lose attraction, wear off, cloy
OriginLate Middle English: shortening of appall. |