Pall Mall

See also: pall mall

English

Pall Mall, London

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

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.
   • 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,

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

Noun

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.