PALL  , a word the various meanings of which can be traced to the Latin word See also:

• PALLIUM

pallium, that is, a piece of See also:

• CLOTH

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

outer garment of the Greeks . In the sense of a garment the See also:

• ENGLISH

English usage of " pall " is confined to the ecclesiastical vestment (see PALLIUM) and to the supertunica or See also:

• DALMATIC (Lat. dalmatica, tunica dalmatica)

dalmatic, the pallium regale or imperial See also:

• MANTLE

mantle, one of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• CORONATION (Lat. corona, crown)

coronation See also:

• VESTMENTS

vestments of See also:

• BRITISH

British sovereigns . The heraldic bearing known as a " pall " takes the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the Y of the ecclesiastical vestment . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief applications of the word, in the sense of a covering, are to an See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar frontal, to a See also:

• LINEN

linen cloth used to See also:

• VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from Lat. velum, cloth, awning, sail)

veil the See also:

• CHALICE (through a central O. Fr. form of the Lat. calix, calicis, cup)

chalice i'n the See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic service of the See also:

• EUCHARIST (Gr. evXapurria, thanksgiving)

Eucharist, and to a heavy See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black, See also:

• PURPLE

purple or See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white covering for a See also:

• COFFIN (from Lat. cophinus, Gr. K64wos, a coffer, chest or basket, but never meaning " coffin " in its present sense)

coffin or See also:

• HEARSE (an adaptation of Fr. herse, a harrow, from Lat. hirpex, hirpicem, rake or harrow, Greek aprra;:)

hearse . The See also:

• LIVERY

livery companies of See also:

• LONDON

London possessed sumptuous See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state palls for the funerals of their members, of which some are still in existence . The See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

Merchant Taylors' See also:

• COMPANY

company have two examples of See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian workmanship . The so-called " See also:

• WALWORTH, SIR WILLIAM (d. 1385)

Walworth pall " of the Fishmongers' company probably See also:

• DATES

dates from the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The Vintners' pall is of cloth of See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold and purple See also:

• VELVET

velvet, with a figure of St See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin of See also:

• TOURS

Tours, the company'sipatron See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint . An entirely different word is " to pall," to become or make stale, insipid or tasteless, hence to cease to See also:

• INTEREST

interest from See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant repetition; this is a shortened form of " appal " (O . Fr. appallir, to become See also:

• PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same original source)

pale; See also:

• LAT

Lat. pallidus) .