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Pall Mall en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpæl ˌmæl/ (UK)

Etymology

From pall mall, the name of a game once played there.

Meanings

  1. A cigarette of the British Pall Mall brand.
    • “You did smoke, though.” / “Yes.” / “Pall Malls?” / Thad had been raising his can of soda. It stopped six inches shy of his mouth. “How did you know that?” […] “But not that I smoked Pall Mall cigarettes for fifteen years,” Thad said. 1989, Stephen King, The Dark Half, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 100:

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Pall-Mall alternative, obsolete lexicographic
Pall Malls Number=Plur lexicographic
Pall mall alternative, obsolete lexicographic
Pall-mall alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Pall Mall en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpæl ˌmæl/ (UK)

Etymology

From pall mall, the name of a game once played there.

Meanings

  1. A fashionable street in Westminster, leading from Trafalgar Square, via the Haymarket, to St James; it is the home of many select gentlemen's clubs.
    • Costigan informed Milly, that when she was gone, Major Pendennis told him in his double-faced Pall Mall polite manner, that young Arthur had no fortune at all, 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In Which A Shooting Match Is Proposed”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 110:
  2. An unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States, named after Pall Mall in London.
  3. A thoroughfare in Bendigo, Victoria.

Forms

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Pall-Mall alternative, obsolete lexicographic
Pall mall alternative, obsolete lexicographic
Pall-mall alternative, obsolete lexicographic