Definitions
lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
Word origin
From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium), probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Become tiresome”4 letters
02“Lose appeal”4 letters
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