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Pall Mall¹

  • /ˈpæl ˌmæl/ UK

Where it comes from

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

proper noun Pall-Mall · Pall-mall · 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. 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 Malls · Pall-Mall · Pall-mall · Pall mall

  1. A cigarette of the British Pall Mall brand. “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.

pall mall²

  • /ˌpælˈmæl/ UK
  • /ˌpælˈmæl/ US

Sounds like pell-mell (US) · Rhymes with -æl

Where it comes from

From Middle French pallemaille, pale-maille, from Italian pallamaglio (“ball-hammer”), from Italian palla (“ball”) and maglio (“hammer”).

noun pall-mall · palle maille · paille maille · pale maille

  1. historical, uncountable A 17th-century game in which a ball was driven along an alley and through a hoop using a mallet.

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"pall mall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pall%20mall. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pall mall. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pall%20mall

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"pall mall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pall%20mall.

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@misc{pall_mall_2026,
  title = {pall mall},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pall%20mall},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}