单词 | pall-mall |
释义 | pall-mall (pĕlmĕl, pălmăl, pôlmôl) n. 1. A game of the 1600s in which a boxwood ball was struck with a mallet to drive it through an iron ring suspended at the end of an alley. 2. The alley in which this game was played. [Obsolete French pallemaille, from Italian pallamaglio : palla, ball (of Germanic origin; see bhel-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots) + maglio, mallet (from Latin malleus; see melə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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