Pell vs Pall - What's the difference?
pell | pall |
A fur or hide.
A lined cloak or its lining.
A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
* 1835 , Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty?s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370 ,
(Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.
(archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
(Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
(Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
(Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
* Fuller
(heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) nausea
(senseid) A feeling of gloom.
To cloak.
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
* Atterbury
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
* Addison
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
As nouns the difference between pell and pall
is that pell is a fur or hide while pall is fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.As verbs the difference between pell and pall
is that pell is to pelt; to knock about while pall is to cloak.pell
English
Noun
(en noun)page xi,
- The clerk of the pell' (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer?s gift) keepeth the '''Pells in parchment, called ''Pelles Receptæ'', wherein every teller?s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, ''recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.
- He also anciently kept another pell , called Pellis Exitus , wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.
Derived terms
* clerk of the pellspall
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
- Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
- His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
- (Shaftesbury)
- A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
- The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
Derived terms
* cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulinSynonyms
* (heraldry) pairleVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.Verb
(en verb)- Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
- The liquor palls .
- Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
- We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.
