- [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 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’.