Meaning of Pall Mall | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A cigarette of the British Pall Mall brand.
3. A 17th-century game in which a ball was driven along an alley and through a hoop using a mallet.
   historical, uncountable
4. An unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States, named after Pall Mall in London.
5. A thoroughfare in Bendigo, Victoria.

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Examples

“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,”

““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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