pall-mall

Speech parts

1. pall-mall - Noun

2. Pall-mall - Proper noun

Meaning

A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall.

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pall mall

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Ellmann (1988:289) Criticism over artistic matters in the Pall Mall Gazette provoked a letter in self-defence, and soon Wilde was a contributor to that and other journals during the years 1885–87. Source: Internet

He was known to have several addictions, including Dewar's Scotch whisky and Pall Mall cigarettes. Source: Internet

"Sir Arthur Sullivan", The Pall Mall Magazine, vol. 23, No. 94, February 1901, p. 255 In early pieces, he imitated Mendelssohn (for example in his incidental music for The Tempest), Auber in his Henry VIII music and Gounod in The Light of the World. Source: Internet

He also spent profligately on books for his grand library at Carlton House, his opulent home on Pall Mall in London. Source: Internet

London has the lamp post boast of being the to demonstrate public street lighting with gas on the 28 January 1807 in Pall Mall, with lamps stretching from St James's to Cockspur Street. Source: Internet

Go to the car, tune your AM radio to some far-off game, light up an unfiltered Pall Mall and smile. Source: Internet

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