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mall

[ mawl; British also mal ]

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noun

Also called shopping mall. a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building. Compare shopping center.
a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.
Chiefly Upstate New York. a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.
the game of pall-mall.
the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.
the place or alley where pall-mall was played.

mall

/ mɔːl; mæl /

Origin of mall¹

1635–45; the Mall, a fashionable tree-lined promenade in 18th-century London, where originally the game pall-mall ( def ) was played; mell ²

Origin of mall¹

C17: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See pall-mall

Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”

They had to go to the bazaar -- as the mall was then called -- and buy them.

The figure enters the elevator and is then seen quickly leaving the mall, black cloth flapping behind it.

Someone dressed as an Emirati woman killed an American teacher in a mall bathroom.

Contrary to what you may assume about me, I actually enjoy the occasional trip to the mall.

The first wounded mall who appealed for help was sitting with his back against a dead comrade.

The shrill notes of the trumpets sounded louder and louder, and a brilliant cavalcade appeared at the end of the mall.

A promenade called the mall, shaded by lofty trees, bounds Pont Brillant on the south.

An old servant woman ushered them into the parlour, which was on the second floor, with windows overlooking the mall.

When at last she drew up the glass and her chair was borne away down the Mall, he sauntered idly in the opposite direction.

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