這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 棺罩；靈柩布 · 失去新鮮感；令人生膩
pall
nPicture someone taking one big piece of heavy cloth and spreading it right over the top of something. The cloth reaches the edges and hangs down. Whatever was underneath is now out of sight, and no light gets in. That single movement — cover it, and let it stay covered — is what every use on this page is doing. Only the cloth and the thing under it keep changing: real cloth over a coffin, smoke over a valley, a heavy mood over a of people.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces this noun from Middle English pal/palle, from Old English pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium 'cloak; covering', probably from palla 'a piece of cloth worn as apparel'. So the covering cloth is not a later metaphor — it is where the word starts.
資料把這個名詞一路追到中古英文 pal／palle，再到古英文 pæll，再到古法文 paile 和拉丁文 pallium（斗篷、覆蓋物），源頭可能是 palla（當衣服穿的一塊布）。所以「一塊蓋上去的布」不是後來才加上的比喻，而是這個字一開始的樣子。後面的煙、氣氛，都是這塊布往外借的。
Wiktionary via local kaikki extract, entry pall (etymology 1, noun), source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:621764649 — "From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium ('cloak; covering')…"
A second word, same spelling
pall
vPicture a bottle of something fizzy left open all night. Nothing has spilled and nothing has broken, but the life has gone out of it, and the first mouthful tastes of nothing much. One of the oldest examples in the record is exactly that — ale that has palled. This verb does the same thing to a pleasure: the holiday, the new game, the new job are unchanged, but the taste has quietly drained away because you have had them too many times.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives this verb by aphesis from appal/appall ('to make pale; to weaken; to lose flavour or become stale'), or alternatively from Middle English pallen ('to diminish, impair, weaken; to become faint; to become stale'), and explicitly calls the noun pall unrelated, saying only that its figurative meaning may have influenced this word.
資料說這個動詞是從 appal／appall 掉了開頭的音變來的，那個字的舊義包含「變蒼白、變弱、走味」；另一條可能是中古英文 pallen（減弱、變淡、走味）。更重要的是，資料明講那個表示「布」的名詞 pall 跟它無關，只說那個名詞的比喻義可能影響過它。所以這個動詞的畫面不是被布蓋住，而是味道和力氣自己跑掉。
Wiktionary via local kaikki extract, entry pall (etymology 3, verb), source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:621788945 — "Formed by aphesis from appal, appall … possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall. Alternatively … from Middle English pallen …"
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