pall

A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.

(figurative) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.

A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.

Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).

A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.

(no longer used) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).

(no longer used) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.

(literary, no longer used) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

(no longer used, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.

To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.

To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.