pall
noun
a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
pall-like
-
a word derived from
pall.
Example Sentences
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Gray haze hangs pall-like over Punjab’s homes, mosques, schools, streets and farmland.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
Over the battlefront hangs, pall-like, a colorless deadly plaid woven of beamless rays that no airplane can pierce.
From Time Magazine Archive
While it went on, dark curtains hung pall-like over it as if to conceal the ceremony, and the ghoul howled in an awful deafening voice to stifle his cries.
From An Iceland Fisherman by M. Jules Cambon
An atmosphere of tears and ominous foreboding hung pall-like over the city's social life.
From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Thomas Dixon
There was nothing in her mind, nothing in her soul, but a great pall-like blank.
From I Will Repay by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
