English Dictionary

pall

IPA（発音記号）

/pɔːl/

名詞

古語 詩語 廃用 比喩的用法

(archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes. / A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.

日本語の意味

（古風・詩的な用法）儀式用の上質な布、特に紫色のローブに用いられる布 / 棺や墓にかけられる重い布、または死体にかける覆い布

Her pall, woven of royal dye and embroidered with gold, swept the marble floor as she entered the hall.

彼女がホールに入ると、王家の染料で織られ金糸で刺繍された紫の豪華な織物が大理石の床を引きずった。

意味（1）

(archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

意味（2）

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

After his death he [Diocletian] remained corporeally in possession of the palace, his tomb resting in the centre of the mausoleum. Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(Christianity, obsolete) 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”).

意味（5）

(archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.

In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]

意味（6）

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

The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.

意味（7）

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

By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]

意味（8）

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

palls （ plural ）