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- a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb棺罩; 柩衣; 墓布。
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- figurative a dark cloud or covering of smoke, dust, or similar〈喻〉乌云; （烟尘之类的）笼罩物：
a pall of black smoke hung over the quarry.
采石场上方笼罩着一片黑烟。
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- figurative something regarded as enveloping a situation with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear〈喻〉阴郁（或恐怖）的气氛：
torture and murder have cast a pall of terror over the villages.
酷刑和杀戮使村庄笼罩在恐怖气氛之中。
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- an ecclesiastical pallium（神职人员的）白羊毛披肩带。
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- Heraldry a Y-shaped charge representing the front of an ecclesiastical pallium【纹章】（白羊毛披肩带般的）Y形图案。
词源
Old English pæll 'rich (purple) cloth'， 'cloth cover for a chalice'， from Latin pallium 'covering， cloak'.