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pall-mall
1[ pel-mel, pal-mal, pawl-mawl ]
noun
- a game, popular in the 17th century, in which a ball of boxwood was struck with a mallet in an attempt to drive it through a raised iron ring at the end of a playing alley.
- a playing alley on which this game was played.
Pall Mall
2[ pal mal, pel mel ]
noun
- a street in London, England, famed for its clubs.
pall-mall
1/ ˈpælˈmæl /
noun
- a game in which a ball is driven by a mallet along an alley and through an iron ring
- the alley itself
Pall Mall
2/ ˈpæl ˈmæl /
noun
- a street in central London, noted for its many clubs
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Example Sentences
Dad was lying on his bed in his underwear and T-shirt smoking a Pall Mall.
In 1871 a group of 32 burly Victorians met at the Pall Mall restaurant on Cockspur Street and started the Rugby Football Union.
On the other hand, they hung in his house in Pall Mall in long rows on the walls of his studio.
After his death it was sold in two parts by Mr. Evans of Pall Mall.
Give us your fist, old boy: and won't we send the 'Pall-Mall Gazette' up to ten thousand a week, that's all!
That there may have been some dealings between the "Pall-Mall Gazette" and this influential party, is very possible.
The writing is now excellent of its kind, but for the word 'Metropolis' and the phrase 'no great distance from' Pall Mall.
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