Pall Mall
See also: pall mall
English
Alternative forms
- Pall-Mall, Pall-mall, Pall mall (obsolete)
Etymology
From pall mall, the name of a game once played there.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpæl ˌmæl/
Proper noun
Pall Mall
- 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.
- 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:
- 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,
- An unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States, named after Pall Mall in London.
- A thoroughfare in Bendigo, Victoria.
Noun
Pall Mall (plural Pall Malls)
- A cigarette of the British Pall Mall brand.
- 1989, Stephen King, The Dark Half, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 100:
- “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.
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