Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Roman antiquity, a full outer robe or wrap, akin to the Greek himation, worn out of doors by women.
- n. Eccles., an altar-cloth; a piece of altar-linen (palla altaris); especially, a corporal (palla corporalis, palla dominica), or a chalice-pall.
Wiktionary
- n. A traditional Tuscan ball game played in the street.
- n. historical A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rom. Antiq.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
Etymologies
- Latin. pall ("a cloak"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The _palla_ was flung like a cloak or mantle, over the _stola_, or uppermost robe, 'Ad talos stola demissa et _circundata_ palla.”
“Above the stola, women wore a mantle called palla or pallium.”
“KETI BANDAR, Sindh, Mar 16 (IPS) - "There was a time when we used to cast our nets into the river [Indus] and haul in no less than 400 to 500 'palla' fish at one go," says”
“KETI BANDAR, Sindh - "There was a time when we used to cast our nets into the river [Indus] and haul in no less than 400 to 500 'palla' fish at one go," says”
“The corporal was described as palla corporalis, or velamen dominic mens, or opertorium dominici corporis, etc.; and it seems generally to have been of linen, though we hear of altar-cloths of silk (Greg. of Tours, "Hist.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“On January 6th, 2010 at 5: 32 am, caroline palla wrote:”
Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
“On June 25th, 2009 at 4: 02 am, caroline palla wrote:”
Spot the 62 pointer - Viu 1 from Chile - and some Spanish | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Nymex April platinum gained 0.4%, and March palla dium on the exchange rose 1.1%.”
“On December 17th, 2009 at 5: 41 am, caroline palla wrote: this is one of my very favorite dr. vino blogs, thank you, bob krumm, for writing to all of us! and thank you, tyler colman, for posting!!!! christmas greetings from switzerland to all the readers, caroline”
A wine lover’s postcard from Camp Basrah, Iraq | Dr Vino's wine blog
“On December 21st, 2009 at 10: 53 am, caroline palla wrote: oups, sorry Yuko!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘palla’.
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Mantle or Cloak
Nouns meaning mantle or cloak
pallium, chlamys, abolla, amiculum, paenula, palla, pallion, peplum, peplos, sagum, trabea, diplois and 2 more...
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O So Zhinsky!
zarf, liripipe, theandric, tazza, bobeche, autotelic, gonfalon, refulgent, crepuscular, caduceus, knop, labarum and 46 more...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
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