How did it ever get its name and why? What's the history behind it?
2006-07-12 15:57:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In Old English, a paell was a rich cloth, especially purple cloth as worn by royalty. In fact, pall meant "purple" in Old English. The word was also taken by the ecclesiastical community to refer to an altar cloth, or the cloth with which the chalice was covered. By the 15th century, pall was being used to describe a cloth that covered a coffin, hearse, or tomb. Then, by the mid-18th century, we find the term pallbearer, which originally referred to those who held the corners of the pall cloth at a funeral. Eventually, those who carried the coffin itself came to be known as the pallbearers, by association.
Pall also has the familiar meaning of "dark, gloomy covering or mood", which is simply a figurative usage that dates from the mid-18th century. A less familiar meaning was "cloak or mantle", and there is even a specific vestment worn by the Pope called a pall.
The Old English form derives from Latin pallium "coverlet, curtain, cloak, the philosphers' cloak".
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How did it ever get its name and why? What's the history behind it?
2015-08-05 22:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pallbearer is a funeral paranymph, helping when the casket of a deceased person is carried away from a religious service or viewing to their final resting place, or to and from the hearse which does so.
A pall is the heavy cloth that is draped over a coffin; by metonymy the term pallbearer is used to signify someone who bears the coffin which the pall covers.
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