pall i (pal)

[Early mod. E. also paul; His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaung'd to a pall of gold. Spenser, F. Q., V. v. 24. "What will you leave to your mother dear?"... "My velvet pall and silken gear." The Cruel Brother (Child's Ballads, II. 255). Specifically- ( a ) A robe put on a king at his coronation. After this he [the archbishop] put upon him [Richard II.] an upper Vesture, called a Pall , saying, Accipe Pallium. Baker , Chronicles, p. 136. (b) Same as pallium , 2 ( b ). pall This palle is an in due ment that euery arc he bys shop must haue, and is nat in full auctoritie of an arc he bys shop tyll he haue recyued his palle [of the Pope], and is a thynge of whyte lyke to the bredeth of a stole. Fabyan , Chron., I. ccxxi. By the beginning, however, of the ninth century, the pall , though it still kept its olden shape of a long stole, began to be put on in a way slightly different from its first fashion; for, instead of both ends falling at the side from the left shoulder, they fell down the middle, one in front, from the chest to the feet, the other just as low behind on the back. Rock , Church of our Fathers, ii. 138. 2. Fine cloth, such as was used for the robes of nobles. Also called cloth of pall. He took off his purple and his girdle of pall . Holy Rood (E. É. T. S.), p. 102. His robe was no it her grene na gray, Bot alle yt was of riche palle . Als Y yod on ay Mounday (Child's Ballads, I. 273). He gave her gold and purple pall to weare. 3. A curtain or covering. The Sage of Monticello. Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 16. The gra y pall which hides Whittier , Randolph of Roanoke. Specifically-(a) A cloth or covering thrown over a coffin, bier, tomb, etc.: as, a funeral pall . At the present time IMG:content-2179.png:[blocks in formation] The palls or nausea tings are of the worst and most hateful kind of sensation. Shaftesbury , Inquiry, II. ii. § 2. pallah of the Colo eum, baths, triumphal arches, and other secular buildings of the Romans. It has been applied more frequently to palaces and civic buildings than to churches. In the Palladian style the Roman orders are employed rather as a decorative feature than as a constructive element, and applied without regard to cla ic precedent. Palladianism (pa-lā'di-an-izm), n. [