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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALL , a word the various meanings of which can be traced to the Latin word See also:

pallium, that is, a piece of See also:cloth used either as a covering or as a garment. In the last sense the pallium was the iµfTwv, the square or oblong-shaped See also:outer garment of the Greeks. In the sense of a garment the See also:English usage of " pall " is confined to the ecclesiastical vestment (see PALLIUM) and to the supertunica or See also:dalmatic, the pallium regale or imperial See also:mantle, one of the See also:principal See also:coronation See also:vestments of See also:British sovereigns. The heraldic bearing known as a " pall " takes the See also:form of the Y of the ecclesiastical vestment. The See also:chief applications of the word, in the sense of a covering, are to an See also:altar frontal, to a See also:linen cloth used to See also:veil the See also:chalice i'n the See also:Catholic service of the See also:Eucharist, and to a heavy See also:black, See also:purple or See also:white covering for a See also:coffin or See also:hearse. The See also:livery companies of See also:London possessed sumptuous See also:state palls for the funerals of their members, of which some are still in existence. The See also:Merchant Taylors' See also:company have two examples of See also:Italian workmanship. The so-called " See also:Walworth pall " of the Fishmongers' company probably See also:dates from the 16th See also:century. The Vintners' pall is of cloth of See also:gold and purple See also:velvet, with a figure of St See also:Martin of See also:Tours, the company'sipatron See also:saint. An entirely different word is " to pall," to become or make stale, insipid or tasteless, hence to cease to See also:interest from See also:constant repetition; this is a shortened form of " appal " (O. Fr. appallir, to become See also:pale; See also:Lat. pallidus).

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