Pall Mall

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English

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Pall Mall, London

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Etymology

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

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Pall Mall

  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. An unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee, United States, named after Pall Mall in London.
  3. A thoroughfare in Bendigo, Victoria.

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Pall Mall (plural Pall Malls)

  1. 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.