Cloth which covers a casket or coffin during the funeral, often of rich materials.
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Examples for "pall"
Examples for "pall"
1A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
1A white border to a black sea-his funeral pall and its edging.
2The bier of Brutus is Rome's funeral pall; He Minos seeks.
3The following gentlemen held the cords of the funeral pall:-
4A funeral pall was spread over Paris, once so gay.
5Woe o'er the land hung like a funeral pall:
1A prickle's at my skin that tells me here is dool, and I can smell mort-cloth.
2"I felt as though I were buried alive-shroudedin white, coffined in mort-cloths!"
1The body was laid in a coffin covered with black velvet.
2New-born babes are buried in tiny coffins covered with pink or blue cambric.
3You think of the memory from the church, the coffin covered in white cloth.
4Six men bore a coffin covered with white flowers.
5The next day he had the coffin covered in canvas and lashed to the seat.
Translations for coffin-cloth