"2.2" . _:vb6946061 "(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."@en . _:vb6946062 "The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration."@en . _:vb6946063 "A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored."@en . _:vb6946062 . _:vb6946065 "Night has spread her pall once more,And the prisoner still is free:Open is his dungeon door,Useless now his dungeon key!"@en . _:vb6946063 . _:vb6946065 "1887, W. S. Gilbert, The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II:"@en . _:vb6946064 "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."@en . _:vb6946064 . _:vb6946065 . _:vb6946064 "1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, \u201CI Saw Three Englands\u20131\u201D, in Railway Magazine, page 11:"@en . . _:vb6946061 .