pall-likeadv.adj.

1827 L. E. Landon Golden Violet 157 She woke the harp, and backward flung The cloud of hair, that pall-like hung O'er her pale brow and radiant eyes.

1891 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 386 The strange inertia falling pall-like round me.

1902 tr. P. Loti Iceland Fisherman v. ix. 272 While it went on dark curbins hung pall-like over it as if to conceal the ceremony.

1992 Times (Nexis) 7 Apr. The awkward silence that can descend, pall-like, on modern West End audiences.

1840 E. A. Poe Ligeia in Tales of Grotesque & Arabesque I. 183 There was the couch, too—the bridal couch—of an Indian model and low, and sculptured of solide ebony, with a pall-like canopy above.

1895 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes (rev. ed.) Pref. The ghostly birds, the pall-like sea..lend to the scene an atmosphere like the twilight of a night vision.

1917 E. W. Wilcox Poet. Wks. 417 Robed in the pall-like garments of the night, There rose a shadowy form.

1997 Afr. Amer. Rev. 31 46/1 The pall-like mist that shrouds the scenery, the latter's uniform colorlessness, the underground cages that are reminiscent of the netherworld.