means simply to cloak. (Latin, pallium, a cloak.)
“That we should not dissemble nor cloke them [our sins] … . but confess them with a humble, lowly, and obedient heart.”—Common Prauer Book.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.