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Antonyms for pall

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : pawl
Phonetic Transcription : pɔl

Definition of pall

Origin :
  • Old English pæll "rich cloth or cloak, purple robe, altar cloth," from Latin pallium "cloak, coverlet, covering," in Tertullian, the garment worn by Christians instead of the Roman toga; related to pallo "robe, cloak," palla "long upper garment of Roman women," perhaps from the root of pellis "skin." Notion of "cloth spread over a coffin" (mid-15c.) led to figurative sense of "dark, gloomy mood" (1742).
  • noun cloud, gloom
  • verb bore, tire
Example sentences :
  • That ere youngster we went arter, by Mr. Bofort's wish, was a pall of his.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • They sat in one of the two large boxes of the Pall Mall Theatre.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • Even the azure, the everlasting azure, began to pall upon him.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • The rain beat down in a drizzle, and for miles the smoke hung like a pall.
  • Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel
  • Did he imagine the mountain-paths of the Basilicata were like Pall Mall?
  • Extract from : « Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service » by Charles James Lever
  • "You leave my top-hamper alone," said Judson, for the joke was beginning to pall on him.
  • Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling
  • The blackness lay like a pall upon the deep, and upon my soul.
  • Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell
  • He is the proprietor of the temple of gaming iniquity, at No. 6, Pall Mall.
  • Extract from : « Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. » by Pierce Egan
  • A kind of pall had descended on the landscape, blotting out the sun.
  • Extract from : « The Girl on the Boat » by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  • What did her eyes seek beneath the pall, the plumes, the flag?
  • Extract from : « Fort Amity » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Synonyms for pall

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