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| pall-mall [ pel mél, pal mál, pawl máwl ] (plural pall-malls) |
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1. old mallet-and-ball game: a 17th-century game in which players used a mallet to hit a wooden ball through an iron hoop suspended at the end of a long alley
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2. alley for playing pall-mall: an alley in which pall-mall is played
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| [Mid-16th century. Via obsolete French palle maille< Italian pallamaglio< balla "ball" + maglio "mallet"] |
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