Chapter Page to Pale Faces of P by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Palissy Ware Dishes and other similar articles covered with models from nature of fish, reptiles, shells, flowers, and leaves, most carefully coloured and in high relief, like the wares of Della Robbia. Bernard Palissy was born at Saintes. (1510-1590.)

Pall the covering thrown over a coffin, is the Latin pallium, a square piece of cloth used by the Romans to throw over their shoulders, or to cover them in bed; hence a coverlet.
   Pall, the long sweeping robe, is the Roman palla, worn only by princes and

women of honest fame. This differed greatly from the pallium, whi