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Is pall a Scrabble word?

Yes, pall is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of pall?

Definition

noun (English)

1. Senses relating to cloth.archaicpoetic

2. Senses relating to cloth.

3. Senses relating to cloth.obsolete

4. Senses relating to clothing.Examples: "In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, […]"; "His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed."archaic

5. Senses relating to clothing.Examples: "The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration."; "A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored."; "The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons."figuratively

6. Senses relating to clothing.Examples: "By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]"; "Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York."

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.Examples: "Come, thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold."transitive

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.Examples: "[…] Reaſon and Reflection, which by repreſenting perpetually to the mind of Man the meanneſs of all ſenſual Gratifications, do, in great meaſure, blunt the edge of his keeneſt Deſires, and pall all his Enjoyments."transitive

2. (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.Examples: "The liquor palls."; "[T]he ale and byere haue palled, and were nought, by cause such ale and biere hathe taken wynde in spurgyng."; "Beauty ſoon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the ſenſe."intransitive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.Examples: "Tho the Impatience of abſtaining be greater; the Pleaſure of Indulgence is really leſs. The Palls or Nauseatings which continually intervene, are of the worſt and moſt hateful kind of Senſation. Hardly is there any thing taſted which is wholly free from this ill reliſh of a ſurfeited Senſe and ruin'd Appetite."obsoleterare

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "pall"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "pall"?

Scrabble
6 points
P3
A1
L1
L1
Words With Friends
9 points
P4
A1
L2
L2

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