A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; used to put over the chalice
burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
the covering thrown over a coffin, is the Latin pallium, a square piece of cloth used by the Romans to throw over their shoulders, or to cover them in bed; hence a coverlet Pall, the long sweeping robe, is the Roman palla, worn only by princes and women of honest fame This differed greatly from the pallium, which was worn by freemen and slaves, soldiers, and philosophers Sometimes let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by Milton: Il Peuseroso