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noun
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(cloth)paño mortuorio masculinea pall of smoke — una cortina de humo- to cast a pall on / over sth — empañar algo
- During the mass, they covered the coffin with a pall, some kind of cloth. we took it off on the way out the door to the church, and then draped the American flag over his coffin.
- Ultimately, the only recognition Railton received was to see the bloodstained Union Jack he had used as a pall for temporary burials lowered over the coffin of the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey.
- There were immense black plumes at each corner and a black velvet pall covered the coffin.
- For his funeral the Archbishop's pall was borne by Sheffield steelworkers to his last resting place in the old churchyard in Bishopthorpe.
- He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
- to cast a pall on / over sth — empañar algo
2US
(bier)andas feminineparihuelas feminine
intransitive verb
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hacerse pesadohis jokes began to pall on us — sus chistes empezaron a aburrirnos- But for one man at least, the role of cheerless automaton seems to be palling.
- But, surprisingly for someone who has experience of the former Soviet Union, Roxburgh overlooks the fact that the attractions of capitalism have palled for many people in the former socialist bloc.
- But its extravagant sorrows and symphonic self-seriousness soon palled.
- The stories never palled and the joy of reading them never faded.
- Tea has stayed with me as a drug of choice where others have palled or become unobtainable.
- But such intensity quickly palled, and the Fitzgeralds grew disenchanted with the life they were leading.
- However, I found the noise palled after a while.
- Her first enchantment with the dazzling array had quickly palled.
- So when the retail experience palls, you can go on safari.
- Perhaps England is beyond description, a country so unsure of its place in the world now that its present palls in comparison with its imperial past.
- Eating out every night wasn't on, both for financial reasons and because even the best restaurant food palls after a while.
- It all falls apart when each gratification palls in the face of mindless repetition.
- What never palls, however, is the revelation of lifestyle and the personal family saga.
- These days the only things I combine are various sorts of books, something that is good for my liver and, moreover, ensures my reading never palls.
- But the atmosphere soon palls as you're forced to follow a predetermined path through ALL the store's departments before you can check out.
- Occasionally, the sheer weight of detail palls, though Yates's style is always light and accessible.
- Oliver becomes someone to whom things happen and his innate goodness and innocence palls when he's surrounded by so many more vibrant and colourful characters.
- There is, of course, a limit to how gripping a narration of running up a stairway can be, and this over-descriptive style palls after a while.
- The concept starts to flag after a while, as Max's smooth chat palls before repeated atrocities.
- But I want only this one night, for I am tired, and the game sometimes palls.
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