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noun:  Senses relating to cloth.
noun:  (archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
noun:  A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
noun:  (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
noun:  (Christianity, obsolete) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
noun:  Senses relating to clothing.
noun:  (archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
noun:  (figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
noun:  (Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
noun:  (heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
verb:  (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
verb:  (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
verb:  (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
noun:  A surname.shroud, mantle, cerement, drape, drapery, curtain, jade, cloy, tire, fatigue, more...
purple,white,silver,gold,pink,blue,green,orange,yellow,red, more...

become tiresome,  shroud of gloom,  veil of gloom,  funeral veil,  vestment for virgil



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