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A pall (also called mortcloth) is a cloth which covers a casket or coffin at funerals.
'You'll use my wolfskin coverlet for mortcloth.
The cannonading of Nanci, so far off, does not disturb him; nor does the black mortcloth, close at hand, nor the requiems chanted, and minute guns, incense-pans and concourse right over his head: none of these; but Peter sleeps through them all.