Definitions for pall-mall

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Spelling: [pel-mel, pal-mal, Pall-Mall is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in pall-mall (-aallllmp).

Definitions for pall-mall

noun

1. a 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.
2. a playing alley on which this game was played.
3. a street in London, England, famed for its clubs.

Origin of pall-mall

1560-70; Middle French pallemaille Italian pallamaglio, equivalent to palla ball (Langobardic) + maglio mallet (Latin malleus). See ball

Examples for pall-mall

If he played at pall-mall she watched him play, and played herself.

But he took one of the lamps and a three-year-old pall-mall Magazine and shut himself up in the bunk-house.

Here he also played at pall-mall, for so is that game called by garrulous old Pepys.

That there may have been some dealings between the "pall-mall Gazette" and this influential party, is very possible.

Cambuca, kam-bū′ka, n. a pastoral staff: a curved stick used in the game of pall-mall.

Give us your fist, old boy: and won't we send the 'pall-mall Gazette' up to ten thousand a week, that's all!

Harold wavered an instant: pall-mall was still strong in him.

Hence the Mall and pall-mall, where games like croquet were played.

Why do not some of these choice spirits quit the salons of pall-mall, and take to the road?

Immediately on my arrival in London, I flew to the dear friend of my heart; she was still at her house, in pall-mall.