pall
noun/pɔːl/
/pɔːl/
- [usually singular] pall of something a thick dark cloud of something
浓密的云烟；尘烟 - a pall of smoke/dust
一团烟雾／沙尘 - (figurative) News of her death cast a pall over the event.
她死亡的消息给这件事蒙上了阴影。
- a pall of smoke/dust
- a cloth spread over a coffin (= a box used for burying a dead person in)
柩衣；棺材罩布
Word Originnoun Old English pæll ‘rich (purple) cloth’, ‘cloth cover for a chalice’, from Latin pallium ‘covering, cloak’.