Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.
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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.
1I'm not sure who said 'there are no pockets in a shroud'.
2When the bands of the shroud have been loosened the people say:-
3The sky was wrapped in its evening shroud of deep, mysterious darkness.
4The shroud application represents one of the first, practical uses for FALCON.
5My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
1A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave.
2They fold away from off her like the cerements of death.
3The moonlight, falling through the thinning forest, showed her white cerements.
4Sears and John, in those cerements of the grave, with those lifeless faces.
5There are the remains of a very impressive figure, apparently rising from her cerements.
1His head was shaved, and his body wrapped in a dark winding-sheet.
2The mist wrapped them like a winding-sheet, and froze as it fell.
3The Abbey of Saint Cornille sheltered, perhaps, the holy winding-sheet of Christ.
4He was as a mystery in a winding-sheet, crowned with a halo.
5I should stand waiting to see you come out in a winding-sheet.
Translations for winding-clothes