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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pall-mall /ˈpælˈmæl/ n obsolete - a game in which a ball is driven by a mallet along an alley and through an iron ring
- the alley itself
Etymology: 17th Century: from obsolete French, from Italian pallamaglio, from palla ball + maglio mallet Pall Mall (pal′ mal′, pel′ mel′),USA pronunciation - Place Namesa street in London, England, famed for its clubs.
pall-mall (pel′mel′, pal′mal′, pôl′môl′),USA pronunciation n. - Gamesa game, popular in the 17th century, in which a ball of boxwood was struck with a mallet in an attempt to drive it through a raised iron ring at the end of a playing alley.
- Gamesa playing alley on which this game was played.
- Latin malleus). See ball1, mall, mell
- Langobardic) + maglio mallet (
- Italian pallamaglio, equivalent. to palla ball (
- Middle French pallemaille
- 1560–70
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