| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| pall-mall |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  p l ml, p lml, pôlmôl |
| NOUN: | 1. A 17th-century game 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Obsolete French pallemaille, from Italian pallamaglio : palla, ball (of Germanic origin; see bhel-2 in Appendix I) + maglio, mallet (from Latin malleus; see mel - in Appendix I).
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