pall-mall in English
noun
1
a 16th- and 17th-century game in which a boxwood ball was driven through an iron ring suspended at the end of a long alley.
Pall mall was popular in Italy, France and Scotland, and spread to England in the 17th century.
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1. "And we can tell you if that's a Parliament or a Pall Mall.
2. You’ll hear what they say they’ve said, over and over again - that little conversational nugget, casually dropped into sentences, like horse droppings Bespattering Pall Mall
3. Decadence, dandyism and aestheticism in the vampire chronicles These ideas come out more clearly when we place Wilde among the female Aesthetes , the women who collaborated with him while he was writing about dress for the Pall Mall Gazette and editing the Woman's World.