Cloth which covers a casket or coffin during the funeral, often of rich materials.
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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 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.
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 :
6 And in the meantime, what a funeral pall is lifted from the heart of the world!
7 A funeral pall settled over the group.
8 A second funeral pall was held by six coiffeurs of the corporation to which Jasmin had belonged.
9 A monte-table cover as a funeral pall .
10 What did it matter to him that the culprit was standing beside two corpses covered with a funeral pall ?
11 By this time the entire sky was overspread with a funeral pall , and it was so dark that they could hardly see.
12 A dark and threatening prophecy had, even before its commencement, enwrapped Louis, his brethren, and his little army, in a funeral pall .
13 The smoke cloud, which always hovered over it, had increased until it hung like a funeral pall over the top of the volcano.
14 In the clear morning air, the smoke of the guns curled up lazily and hung like a funeral pall over the mangled, bleeding form.
15 There was a livid look upon the waters, and the atmosphere was heavy with heat; the sky to windward black as a funeral pall .
16 Presently the sun, which had risen bright and clear, was hid by it, and the golden sky was filled with the great funeral pall .
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