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