(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.
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The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
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A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
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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.
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1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
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Night has spread her pall once more,And the prisoner still is free:Open is his dungeon door,Useless now his dungeon key!
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1887, W. S. Gilbert, The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: